El latín, una lengua (antiguamente) sin artículosobre la aparición de una clase de palabra

  1. Agustín Ramos Guerreira 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Book:
Forum classicorum: perspectivas y avances sobre el Mundo Clásico
  1. Jesús de la Villa Polo (coord.)
  2. Antonio López Fonseca (coord.)
  3. Emma Falque Rey (coord.)
  4. María Paz de Hoz García-Bellido (coord.)
  5. María José Muñoz Jiménez (coord.)
  6. Irene Villarroel Fernández (coord.)
  7. Victoria Recio Muñoz (coord.)

Publisher: Guillermo Escolar Editor ; Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos

ISBN: 978-84-18981-13-5 978-84-09-34325-6 978-84-09-34322-5 978-84-09-34323-2

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 1

Pages: 393-432

Congress: Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos (15. 2019. Valladolid)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

This article intends to analyse the emergence of a word class, the article, in the development of the Latin language from the classical period, in which it did not exist, until the Romance languages, in which it has been created in a general way. First, we briefly analyse the functionality of this word class and its development in the languages of the world, the existence of other means to achieve the same goal in ancient Indo-European languages, the way it emerges, and the possible causes of its development. In the last part a study is conducted on a Latin text to attempt to show how ancient Latin addresses the absence of the article in the domains of reference and definiteness and to what extent its creation is an advantage in the mechanisms of expression of such domains