Collapse and Reorganization of the Latin Nominal Flection As Reflected in Epigraphic Sources. With the assistance of Jeffrey Chamberlain.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - From the introduction: This study is an extension of our previously published morpho-syntactic analysis in which we attempted to give, within a comparative-quantitative framework, an organic treatment of the nominal inflection in Latin Christian inscriptions with a view to ascertaining the extent to which these documents reflect the transformation of the Classical Latin multi-case system into the eventual one-case system of the Western Romance languages. In the course of the present analysis we propose to study morpho-syntactic phenomena culled from these same sources found in Dalmatia and the Latin Provinces of Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia, Dacia, Macedonia, and Thracia, also with the aim of determining the degree to which they reveal (a) the survival of the Classical Latin case system and (b) the trends that point in the direction of a collapse of this system. In keeping with the ultimate purpose of this inquiry, we also propose to compare data obtained from these Eastern regions of the Roman world with those already available for the Western regions, namely Gaul, the Iberian, and the Italian Peninsulas. ISBN 9780916379063