Priscianus

XVII and XVIII, which became very popular later in the Middle Ages under the name Priscianus minor. [

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Priscianus jr. sez: The neocons are a movement that openly avows the use of the “noble lie” for greater ends.

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The grammatica speculativa of the Modistae consisted es - sentially in a superficial harmonizing of Priscianus and

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

By and large the gram - marians returned to the more practical but somewhat humdrum explanations of Donatus and Priscianus.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

To Apollonius Dyscolus, as to Priscianus who followed him, syntax was therefore a question of finding out how word classes and word forms could be com - bined with each other on the basis of their intrinsic characteristics.

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The parts of speech definitions of Priscianus were restated in terms of the new concept.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

Such a system, of course, was bound to fail in the same way as Priscianus 'syntax failed.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The accidence expounded by Dionysius Thrax is found practically unchanged in Apollonius Dyscolus, and was taken over almost completely by such Roman grammarians as Donatus and Priscianus.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

Priscianus tried, for in - stance, to carry over the Greek distinction between the optative and the subjunctive to Latin, thus indi - cating that he had not firmly grasped the fundamental principle of basing the morphology on the formal distinctions made in the language.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

Priscianus 'rather haphazard and ad hoc grammatical concepts into a highly abstract and abstruse termi -

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968