Syntax and affixation

The evolution of "mente" in Latin and Romance

Keith E. Karlsson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9783484521827
• eBook ISBN: 9783111329017
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter One ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB: A TYPOLOGICAL SURVEY
• 1.1. Word Order
• 1.2. Stress
• 1.3. Distinction of Form
• 1.3.1. Uninflected Form: German
• 1.3.2. Prefix: Celtic
• 1.3.4. The Use of Case Forms
• 1.4. Other Affixes
• 1.4.1. Prefix: Old Irish, Russian
• 1.4.2. Suffixes
• 1.5. Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Two THE ADVERBS OF CLASSICAL LATIN
• 2.1.1. Nominative-Accusative Neuter: -e
• 2.1.2. Comparatives in -ius
• 2.1.3. Adverbs in -um
• 2.1.4. Nominative-Accusative Neuter Plural: -a
• 2.2. Accusative Feminine
• 2.2.1. Accusative Singular Feminine: -am
• 2.2.2. Accusative Plural Feminine: -ās
• 2.2.3. Accusative Singular Feminine: -im
• 2.3. Ablative-Instrumental
• 2.3.1. Ablative-Instrumental: -ē
• 2.3.2. Ablative-Instrumental -ō
• 2.3.3. Ablative-Instrumental: -ā
• 2.3.4. Ablative Plural: -īs
• 2.3.5. Other Ablative Formations
• 2.3.6. -tus
• 2.4.1. Nominative Singular: -(i)ter
• 2.4.2. Other Adverbs from the Nominative
• 2.5.1. Other Adverbial Formations: Cases
• 2.5.2. Other Adverbial Formations: -per
• 2.5.3. Compounds: Preposition and Noun
• 2.5.4. Verbal Phrases
• 2.6. Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Three FROM LATIN TO ROMANCE
• 3.1.1. Heterogeneity of Morpheme Variants
• 3.1.2. Choice of Morpheme Variant Unpredictable
• 3.1.3. Multiple Adverbial Forms
• 3.1.4. The Fate of the Case System and Unstressed Suffixes
• 3.2. Latin Preference for Sharply Characterized Adverbs
• 3.3.1. -Iter with -us Adjectives
• 3.3.2. -Enter, -anter with -us Adjectives
• 3.3.3. -Im with -us Adjectives in Christian Latin
• 3.4.1. Periphrastic Constructions Using Abstract Nouns
• 3.4.2 Periphrastic Constructions Describing a Mental State
• 3.5.1. Mente with -us Adjectives in Latin
• 3.5.2. The Ordering of the Elements in Latin
• 3.6. The Salic Law
• 3.7. The Reichenau Glosses
• 3.8. Summary and Conclusion
• Chapter Four MENTE IN GALLO-ROMANCE
• 4.1. The Phonology of -ment
• 4.2. The Loss and Replacement of the Noun MENTE(M)
• 4.3.1. -Ment-Adverbs Written as Two Words
• 4.3.2. -Ment Written Only Once in a Series of Adverbs
• 4.4. The Vowel of the Adjective Element
• 4.5.1. The Adjective in Old French
• 4.5.2. Pre-Old French Analogical Feminines
• 4.5.3. Analogical Feminines in Old French
• 4.5.4. Post-16th c. Developments
• 4.6.1. The Use of the Masculine for Adverbial Formation
• 4.6.2. Adjectives With Masc. Ending in a Stressed Vowel
• 4.7. The Rise and Spread of -aument
• 4.8. -antement, -entement vs. -amment, -emment
• 4.9. The Rise and Spread of -ement
• 4.10. Summary and Conclusion
• 4.11. MENTE in Occitan
• Chapter Five MENTE IN IBERO-ROMANCE
• 5.1. The Adverbial Suffix in Spanish
• 5.2.1. The Glosas
• 5.2.2. Twelfth-century Texts
• 5.3. Thirteenth-century Old Spanish Documents
• 5.3.1. Castilian Documents
• 5.3.2. Leonese Documents
• 5.3.3. Aragonese and Navarrese Documents
• 5.4. The Fueros
• 5.5. The Adverbial Suffix in Aragonese
• 5.6.1. Thirteenth-century Poetry
• 5.6.2. Alfonsine Prose
• 5.6.3. Fourteenth-century Literature
• 5.7.1. The Adverb in Castilian: mientre
• 5.7.2. The -r- in mientre
• 5.7.3. -miente and -miento
• 5.7.4. -miente and miente (s)
• 5.8. -ment and -mente
• 5.9.1. -mente in a Series of Adverbs
• 5.9.2. The Dropping of -ment in Old Aragonese
• 5.9.3. Other Vestiges of the Independence of -mente
• 5.10. Guisa, cosa, manera
• 5.11. Summary and Conclusion
• 5.12. MENTE in Catalan
• 5.13. MENTE in Portuguese
• Chapter Six MENTE IN ITALO-ROMANCE, ‘RHETO-ROM ANCE\ DALM ATIAN, AND RUMANIAN
• 6.1. -menti
• 6.2. Dialectal Variants of -mente
• 6.3. Adverbs from Adjectives in -le, -re
• 6.4. The Adverb Written as Two Words
• 6.5. -mente in a Series of Adverbs
• 6.6. Imprimamente and imprimieramente
• 6.7. Guisa and via
• 6.8. Southern Italian
• 6.9. Summary and Conclusion
• 6.10. Sardinian
• 6.11. Friulan, Ladino, Romantsch and Engadinisch
• 6.12. Dalmatian
• 6.13. Rumanian
• CONCLUSION
• Appendix One MENTE IN LATIN
• Appendix Two ADJECTIVES WITH MENTE IN LATIN
• BIBLIOGRAPHY