title: The Origin of the Latin Fifth Declension
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metadata.value: Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-21T19:22:07Z
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metadata.value: 2022-02-21T19:22:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak. The Origin of the Latin Fifth Declension. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (2), 262–276.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35193
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metadata.value: The goal of the article is to review Dariusz R. Piwowarczyk’s recent works (2016; 2017;
  2017 [bis]; 2019) on the origin of the Latin fifth declension, as well as to demonstrate the
  correctness of the dual explanation (Witczak 2015) not discussed or even mentioned by Piwowarczyk.
  The author is convinced that Latin, like other Indo-European languages, once
  had a separate dual number which disappeared in the pre-literary period. The loss of the dual
  number disturbed the declension system existing at the time and caused the need for the
  creation of a new declension class (the fifth declension). The laryngeal phoneme *h1 formed
  the basic dual ending in the Indo-European languages. Proto-Indo-European animate nouns
  of consonant stems created a strong form in the dual number, demonstrating the ending
  *-eh1 (hence IE. *-ē and Latin *-ē-), whereas inanimate nouns had a weak form (PIE. *-ih1,
  hence Lat. -ī in vīgintī ‘twenty’ and the oblique stem *-iē-, attested in Lat. aciēs, māteriēs etc.).
  Proto-Latin dual forms ending in *-ē (< PIE. *-eh1) referring to animate nouns, as well as dual
  forms ending in *-ī (< PIE. *-ih1) referring to inanimate nouns, underwent the process of collectivization
  and singularization: most of them gained the status of typical singularia tantum
  and then formed a separate class of nouns which had -ē- as the common feature. It is finally
  suggested that a large group of originally dual nouns (especially the so- called dualia tantum)
  formed the Latin fifth declension.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dual number
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dualia tantum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fifth Latin declension
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Indo-European languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin morphology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: singularia tantum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Origin of the Latin Fifth Declension
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metadata.value: Article
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