A ARS Grammatica de Diomedes: reflexos do bilinguismo greco-latino

Abstract

In this dissertation we intend to examine, in the Ars grammatica of Diomedes, the textual elements and grammatical concepts that could represent reflections from the Greek and Latin bilingualism in the society in which this work was inserted, more specifically in the region of Constantinople, the late capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, where the grammar might have been published around the last years of the 4th century AD. The analysis of the artes grammaticae of Latin grammarians, such as Diomedes and his ars, is constituent of a combination of studies belonging to the field of Historiography of Linguistics, which have ancient texts as corpus. Through this corpus, according to the approach of Swiggers (2013, p. 43), we look for providing a modest contribution to the comprehension of the linguistic ideas and their development. This contribution initiates in this work from the historical and sociolinguistic contextualization of the text under analysis, in order to illustrate the dynamics of the coexistence of the Greek and Latin languages established in an ancient grammatical text at that time. Based on this context, we demonstrate and evaluate the traces in the text which originate from the socio-regional bilingual features, taking as well into consideration the language of the potential reader of the grammar and the metalanguage itself used by the author.