{"title":"Ars longa, vita brevis; or: On the relationship between historical linguistics and typology","authors":"Pierluigi Cuzzolin","doi":"10.6092/LEF_22_P7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In Latin, particularly in Early Latin, sentences occur provided with “gnomic” value such as, for instance: Ars longa, vita brevis. Combining typological data and recent results of the comparative method within Indo-European (mainly Vedic an Lithuanian), there is solid evidence that this syntactic type, which is only residual in Latin, was in fact one of the oldest strategies Indo-European has at its disposal to express comparison.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"22 1","pages":"7-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Linguistica e Filologia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_22_P7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In Latin, particularly in Early Latin, sentences occur provided with “gnomic” value such as, for instance: Ars longa, vita brevis. Combining typological data and recent results of the comparative method within Indo-European (mainly Vedic an Lithuanian), there is solid evidence that this syntactic type, which is only residual in Latin, was in fact one of the oldest strategies Indo-European has at its disposal to express comparison.