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    • Author/Creator:Pultrová, Lucie, author.
    • Title:The category of comparison in Latin / by Lucie Pultrová.
    • ISBN:9789004523463
      9004523464
      9789004523470
    • Publication:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
    • Physical Description:xiii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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    • Summary:"This book focuses on one of the basic - yet still rather neglected in Latin linguistics- grammatical categories: comparison of adjectives and adverbs. Which Latin adjectives and adverbs allow for comparative and superlative forms, and which ones do not? This question may seem trivial to those working with modern languages but is not at all trivial in the case of a dead language such as Latin that has no native speakers and a limited corpus of written texts. Based on extensive data collection, the book aims to provide today's readers of Latin with some objective criteria for determining the answer"--
    • Other formats:Online version: Pultrová, Lucie. Category of comparison in Latin Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
    • Format:Book
    • Series:The language of classical literature, volume 36
      Language of classical literature ; v. 36.
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Subjects:Latin language--Adjective.
      Latin language--Adverb.
      Latin language--Comparison.
      Latin language--Adjective.
      Latin language--Comparison.