Publication details
Zur Konstruktion Ab urbe condita
| Title in English | To the Construction Ab urbe condita |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Dominant Participle; Absolutive Case; Predicative Participle; Legal Phraseology |
| Description | The starting point is O. W. Heick’s 1936 book The Ab Urbe Condita Construction in Latin – it contains a broad material, which is described also in this essay. The author tries to explain particular stages of the development of the construction not only according to Heick’s examples, but also according to her own comparative excerpts. She broadens it and explains it in agreement with general developmental tendencies in linguistics. In compliance with the ascertained spread of the dominant participle in different fields and literary genres, the author considers state administration, legal phraseology and rhetoric as well as practical rhetoric the most important fields of the use of the ab urbe condita construction. All these fields are strongly connected by M. Tullius Cicero. |
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