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Document Details : Title: On the Use and Development of fabulor Author(s): GALDI, Giovanbattista Journal: Latomus Volume: 83 Issue: 1 Date: 2024 Pages: 28-55 DOI: 10.2143/LAT.83.1.3293266 Abstract : The verb fabulor is generally included among the features characteristic of ‘submerged Latinity’. Indeed, while still common in Plautus, the verb disappears almost entirely in later centuries, only to resurface in post-classical and later sources. In addition, fabulor has attracted the attention of Latinists and Romanists because of its survival in Ibero-Romance (Sp. hablar, Port. falar) and in some Eastern Romance dialects. However, its use has never been the object of a systematic study. The current paper aims at filling this gap by analysing the occurrences and distribution of the verb in literary and non-literary sources, from the 3rd c. BC onwards. The discussion focusses on the syntactic and semantic properties of fabulor and on their evolution over time, with a specific focus on diastratic, diaphasic and genre-related aspects. Additionally, the use of the verb is compared with that of the polysemic coradical fabula which, similarly to fabulor, modified and enlarged its meaning during the imperial period. |
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