Livingston Ivy. A linguistic commentary on Livius Andronicus

New York: Routledge, 2004. — xxi, 95 p. — (Studies in classics). — ISBN: 9780415968997.The meager fragments of Livius Andronicus represent our earliest literary Latin and provide valuable evidence for the language before the heavy hand of Latin literary tradition led to morphological and syntactic streamlining. In this book Ivy Livingston examines the fragments from the point of view of historical and Indo-European linguistics. Among the most interesting results are the elucidation of the prehistory of the vocatives of -iio-stems, the class of deverbal nouns in -ētum and -ēta , the prehistory of the paradigm of homo, and the etymology and morphology of praeda and praestolari. In an appendix a new and plausible theory for the origin of the Latin adjective in -ulentus is offered.Preface (Michael Weiss)Commentary
Section 1: The Odyssey
Od. 2 filie, 5 Laertie
Od. 10 Morta
Od. 15 nequinont, 36 inserinuntur
Od. 25, 33, 34 topper
Od. 30 Monetas
Od. 33 homones
Od. 39 gavisi
Od. 40 pulla
Od. 41 mandisset
Od. 46 dextrabus
Section 2 Tragedies
fr. 4 praeda
fr. 20 opes, opitula
fr. 29 praestolaras
fr. 38 nefrendem, lacteam inmulgens opemAppendix