Numerus

"Keywords: fighting style, skirmish, archer, slinger, spearman

This study presents and analyses the style and fighting tactics tackled by the skirmishing troops of the Roman army, with special attention to those that were garrisoned in Dacia, as well. The purpose of the paper is to broach this subject from the point of view of the populations that enter the structure of these troops, of the military equipment and of the place the unit was quartered.
Concerning the equipment and the fighting style, the study will include three types of troops: archers, spear-throwers and slingers."

This draft gives an overview over diminutives used in Welsh in order to alter the meaning of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Such a change of meaning can be linked to a change in word class or grammar category, like the singulative, i.e. a number category.

Reconstruction trial of a Roman troop list of the 6th century.

The new edition of this book is a roman troop list of the 6th century - similar to the famous Notitia Dignitatum. Design and layout of this edition are closely based on the version of Otto Seeck, which provides in my opinion still the best overview.

The Roman Empire of the 6th century was marked by fierce defensive battles against the Persian Sasanids. The program for the reconquest of the West also formed a key moment of these years. Great successes and triumphal marches in Constantinople were replaced a few years later by devastating defeats that should bring the empire to the brink of its existence. In the end there was the loss of large parts in the long-contested Italy and concessions to the Langobardi. Equally large parts of the Balkans and Greece were lost to the invading Slavs and Avars, in the east the Persians were able to conquer Syria, Palestine and Egypt and occupy them for years.
The sighting of countless papyri of various parts of the empire, reports of ancient authors and contemporary witnesses of those years as well as an evaluation of grave steles and other works of art allow the identification of many troops of this moving time.
In doing so, we learn the names and location of these regiments, furthermore we can also determine some of their shield symbols by comparing them with the official Notitia dignitatum from the years 390 to 420 AD. The graphic representation consciously builds on the late Roman original and was thus written in Latin.
(!) Footnotes and remarks are written in German (!)
Römische Militärgeschichte Band 1
Rekonstruktionsversuch einer römischen Truppenliste des sechsten Jahrhunderts
Hardcover 172 pages
ISBN-13: 9783734784767
ePUB 4,6 MB
ISBN-13: 9783739269955

The formation of the grammatical number in the standard Balkan languages. A typological comparisonThis article is part of the wider project Grammatica Balkanica, the intentions of which have already been mentioned in previous publications. The present study is based on standard languages and its focus is laid less on historical than on typological aspects. Before dealing with the Balkan languages, a similar approach on the Romance languages was conducted. The present paper discusses the differences and similarities in the formation of the grammatical number in the standard Balkan languages. Formation models will be delivered based on examples. The same approach should be applied to all Slavic languages. The aim of the whole project is to examine the differences and similarities between languages regarding the morphological and syntactic formation patterns, the phenomena of their convergence and divergence, the extent to which these factors are connected to cultural history and cogni...

The existence of a singulative, i.e. a marked secondary singular inflection, is cross-linguistically relatively widespread and a number of linguistic strategies are commonly employed to express it (cf. the Bantu language Swahili, Insular Celtic, or Slavic). While various studies have addressed the singulative in non-Indo-European languages or discuss them adequately in grammar books, little work has been done on the singulative in any living Indo-European (IE) language. This is unfortunate, because in the modern p-Celtic languages the use of diminutive formants in order to form a secondary singular, i.e. a singulative, is quite productive, in particular in Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Through examination of evidence from Slavic languages, in particular Sorbian, a possible development of the singulative in both p-Celtic and Slavic is proposed below. Although not as productive as in the p-Celtic languages, clear traces of similar formations of the singulative can still be discerned in p...

... Autores: Luis Merino Jerez; Localización: Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico : actas del I Simposio sobre Humanismo y pervivencia del mundo clásico, (Alcañiz, 8 al 11 de mayo de 1990) / José María Maestre Maestre, Joaquín Pascual Borea (coordinadores) / coord. ...