From Ancient Species and Figura Accidents to Rudiments of the Word-Formation Discipline in Latin and Vernacular Grammars (16th to 18th Centuries)

• Authors: Buzássyová Ľudmila
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An analysis of the structure of grammatical texts in relation to the doctrine of grammatical accidents and its terminology is presented in the article. It describes nominal species and figura accidents from late-ancient Artes grammaticae, which, after long historical development, formed the basis for the word-formation discipline as we understand it today. Special attention is paid to the position of species and figura accidents in the De nomine chapter of the part of the grammars devoted to Etymologia and to the way they changed over time. Alongside species and figura, additional accidents (motio first and foremost), which later enriched the species-figura basis, are taken into account. The focus lies in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, when vernacular grammars (including grammars of Czech, Slovakized Czech, and Slovak) reflected the changes in the structure of Latin grammars. Within the given topic, typical features of representative grammatical texts are also identified: e.g., the features of Melanchthonian grammar, the Ramean ones, and the impact of Scaliger. The end of the eighteenth century, as demonstrated in the article, appears to be the crucial stage in the history of the establishment of word-formation as a self-contained linguistic discipline in the grammatography of Upper Hungary. At that time (specifically in 1791), Anton Bernolak, following in the footsteps of Rosa’s (1672) and particularly Doležal’s (1746) grammars, finally identified wordformation as an independent research area in his systematic treatise entitled Etymologia vocum Slavicarum.

Keywords

EN

Latin grammar; vernacular grammar; word-formation; word-and-accident model; species; figura; motio

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 142
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 407-443

Contributors

author

Buzássyová Ľudmila

• Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Classical and Semitic Philology, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovakia