FormalReview of Latin
Subject Matter
This course is intended as a review for anyone who has completed the equivalent of Latin 1 at Amherst College (first-year grammar). All students are welcome. This intensive review will cover the most important aspects of Latin syntax, and some tricky aspects of accidence. In particular, we cover all of the ‘subjunctive’ clauses. For Morphology we will also review some of the more difficult phenomena (3rd declension, demonstratives).
Spring Semester 2011: Where, When, etc.
We will begin during Week 3 of the Semester, on Monday 7th February.
Meeting Time: Monday evenings 7pm-8pm in Grosvenor 12 (Holloway Classics Library)
We will have about 10 sessions
Text: Moreland and Fleischer: Latin: An Intensive Course. UC Press. 1977 (new copies on Amazon are 30 dollars, used copies as little as 10). Amherst books may also have some copies. I will also provide some handouts for review and practice.
Schedule
The number next to the material listed after it designates the week during the term when we will review that material. Thus, “7) Cum Clauses” means that we will work on cum-clauses during the 7th week of the term.
Note that I have divided some weeks at the beginning into a Morphology section and a Syntax section, i.e. weeks 3-6 will have an additional morphology review of some basic yet confusing items.
Requirements
Please read the indicated material in a grammar such as Moreland and Fleischer (=M&F) or another grammar book (e.g. Wheelock’s or Bennet’s Latin Grammar—the latter available on-line as a PDF)before the review session. I will primarily use M&F. I recommend that you purchase it and review the entire book during the course of the semester.
SOME (NOT ALL) parts of Moreland and Fleischer (M&F), i.e. Chapters 2, 3, and 14-18 are available as a .pdf file for reference, including the drills from those chapters that we will cover in the review session. I would strongly recommend that you buy a copy of M&F if you don’t already own it. Additional reading suggestions are provided in the handouts. For in-depth but accessible explanations, I am partial to Woodcock’s New Latin Syntax. For the Germanophiles and the advanced, the new edition of Menge’s Lehrbuch der Lateinischen Syntax und Semantik is available. Bennet’s Latin Grammar is available on-line (it’s out of copyright).
Morphology
3) Morphology of 3rd Declension Nouns (M&F: 6A) and Adjectives (M&F: 8A), Present Participle (M&F:
8A), Comparatives (M&F: 9A-F)
Handout: third_declension
4) Morphology and Basic Uses of the Gerund/Gerundive/Supine (M&F: 16A-C, 17D)
Handout: gerund_gerundive
5) Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative Pronouns; unusnauta adjs. (M&F: 7A, 7D-F, 10B, 12D-G, 13A)
6) Using Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns (aliquis, quisquam, quisque, etc.) (reading same as above).
Syntax:
3) Hypothetical Clauses (M&F: 2E)
4) Independent Subjunctives (M&F: 12A); Imperatives (M&F: 8F)
5) Review Gerund/Gerundive (especially purpose: M&F: 16A-C, 17D); Result and Purpose Clauses(M&F:
14A-B)
6) Indirect Questions: (Indirect Questions Handout; M&F: 12B-C)
Handout: indirect_questions
7) Indirect Statement and Indirect Command; Impersonal Verbs (M&F: 16 D-E)
[Spring Break between weeks 7 and 8]
8) Temporal, Causal, Concessive, Proviso,(M&F: 15 A-E)
Handout: temporal_causal_concessive
9) Cum Clauses (temporal, circumstantial, causal, concessive) (M&F: 15 A-B)
Handout: latin_cum_clauses
10) Special Relative Clauses (Connecting, Purpose, Result, Characteristic, etc.) (M&F: 14C-F)
11) Clauses of Fearing, Doubting, and Prevention (M&F: 17 A-C)
Handout: fearing_doubting_prevention
12) Wrap-up and Review
Other Assignments during semester (either during break or at the end)
Handout on Temporal, Causal, Concessive, Proviso, Fearing, Doubting, Preventing/Hindering
Handout is entitled: homework_large_template.doc
Informally we will try tocover the following
Dative Uses, Dative with Intransitive Verbs, Certain Compounds, Impersonal Passives (M&F: 13 B-D)
Ablative Uses
Sum/eo/volo/nolo/malo/fio
Five ‘transitive’ deponents governing the ablative (aka ‘PUFFV’ Verbs)
Verb principal parts: cado, caedo, cedo
Verb principal parts: pareo, pario, paro
Verb principal parts: vivo, vinco, vincio.
Verb principal parts: tango, tego, teneo, tendo
Verb principal parts: sisto, statuo, sto (cf. M&F 16 Vocab p. 271)
Additional Morphology Review
Anyone wanting to do some extra morphology review should ask me about the optional comprehensive morphology exam.