Università Roma Tre

On the basis of linguistic documents and contemporary testimonies to the different linguistic phenomena, the course will illustrate some aspects of linguistic communication in Latin, considered in its diachronic development (from protohistory to the Romance) and in its various registers (standard and informal). The reading and analysis of two comedies - one of archaic age (Plautus' Aulularia), the other of late antiquity (the Querolus by an unknown author) - intends to provide the tools to grasp the specificities of the historical evolution of the language Latin and to identify its morphosyntactic and stylistic peculiarities.

To this end, the course includes:

(1) A cycle of lessons aimed at offering an overview of the history of the Latin language from its origins up to the 6th century. d.C., through the reconstruction of the fundamental stages of its evolution in the dimension of language of use and literary language;
(2) Framework, reading, translation and commentary on the following two works:
- (a) Plautus, Aulularia.
- (b) Anonymous, Querolus sive Aulularia (extracts).

For point 1 of the Course:
- F. Stolz - A. Debrunner - W.P. Schmid, Storia della lingua latina (con introduzione di A. Traina, appendice di J.M. Tronsky), Bologna, Pàtron, IV ed., 1993 (or further editions).
- Further teaching materials will be distributed in class and / or uploaded to the teacher's page available on the website of the Department of Humanities.

For point 2 of the Course:
- (a) Plauto, La pentola dell’oro, commento a cura di C. Questa, Torino, Loescher, 1978;
- (b) Querolus (Aulularia); comédie latine anonyme, èd. par C. Jacquemard, Paris, Les belles lettres, 2003.
Non-attending students will integrate the program with the individual study of the following text:
- Elena Malaspina, La comunicazione linguistica in latino. Testimonianze e documenti, Seconda edizione riveduta e ampliata con la collaborazione di Ermanno Malaspina, Alessandria, Ediz. dell’Orso, 2014.