The Latin Supine and the Sanskrit Infinitive; Priscian

Töttössy, Csaba (2005) The Latin Supine and the Sanskrit Infinitive; Priscian. Acta Antiqua, 45 (2-3). pp. 337-342. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

The detailed treatment of the Latin supine has been neglected both in scholarly literature and in language teaching, even though it is a very ancient form that has survived in an interesting way and was used even in late Latin. The fact that the Latin supine has a parallel in Sanskrit deserves attention. In this study I demonstrate that Priscian projected the Latin usage of his own time back to classical Latin, which fact was nevertheless not detrimental to his credibility.

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