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that spoken Vulgar Latin is the chronological successor (a corruption) of Classical Latin.3 Apart from this antiquated view, there are, roughly, two types of Vulgar Latin theories. First, there are theories which propose that there was, especially during the Empire and the early Middle Ages, a linguistic unity of popular speech
4 In the classical period and for some time after, when classical Latin was more similar to the language of the instructor and of the learner (presumably it was some version of the more formal contemporary language), it must have been easier, once one was literate, to learn to read and write classical Latin, the standard language. It would also ...
‘Informal’ Latin is not the ideal description of this type of Latin, as Adams explains in the introduction, since some of the texts contain literary features and some were in fact their authors’ best attempts at writing formal Latin. But since the ousting of the term ‘Vulgar Latin’, a standard term for Latin texts containing ...
So "Vulgar Latin" ceased to be a useful parameter for identifying the various Romance languages. It was at this time that Vulgar Latin became a collective name to designate a group of dialects derived from Latin, with local (not necessarily common) characteristics, which did not constitute a language, at least in the classical sense of the term..
This paper stems from two different perspectives—that of the Latinists, and that of the Romanists—upon the concept of ‘Vulgar Latin’, perspectives that have given rise to a friendly debate between Pierre Flobert and Eugeniu Coșeriu. We try to highlight a number of lexical elements that are common to Classical and Vulgar Latin.
Jan 21, 2015 · Since last Friday marked the anniversary of the date the Roman Empire was founded, we've been looking at the Latin language in our most recent posts. We started with Old Latin on Friday, before covering Classical Latin on Monday. Today we find ourselves looking at both Vulgar Latin and Late Latin.
Sometimes called Vulgar or Popular Latin, this variety is often conceptualized as a discrete linguistic variety, which is held responsible for the changes in the provincial realization of Latin. Since a great deal of evidence for this variety is collected from written texts, studies on the emergence of the Romance languages have tended to ...
