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Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
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A familiar theme in Greek philosophy, largely due to the influence of Plato's Cratylus, linguistic naturalism (the notion that linguistic facts, structures or behaviour are in some significant sense determined by nature) constitutes a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic thought. Indeed, it holds significance not only for the history of linguistics but also for philosophy, stylistics, rhetoric and more. The chapters in this volume deal with a range of naturalist theories in a variety of authors including Cicero, Varro, Nigidius Figulus, Posidonius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The result is a complex and multi-faceted picture of how language and nature were believed to interrelate in the classical Roman world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: First Thoughts on Language and Nature
- Chapter 1 Posidonius' Linguistic Naturalism and Its Philosophical Pedigree
- Chapter 2 Lucilius on Latin Spelling, Grammar, and Usage
- Chapter 3 Nigidius Figulus' Naturalism: Between Grammar and Philosophy
- Chapter 4 Naturalism in Morphology: Varro on Derivation and Inflection
- Chapter 5 What's Hecuba to Him?: Varro on the Natural Kinship of Things and of Words
- Chapter 6 Linguistic Naturalism in Cicero's Academica
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Naturalism and Natural Style: From Varro and Cicero to Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Chapter 8 Natural Law and Natural Language in the First Century BCE
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum