The linguistic phenomenon of compound words has not only attracted the interest of grammarians, given that the potential inherent in the meeting and welding into a unicum between different words has also been explored literaryly: playing on ambiguity and, so to speak, on congenital duplicity of these forms, therefore capable of going in the direction of the enigma, the double meaning and the surprise effect. We will examine here some emblematic cases in the Petronian passage of the apophoreta in Sat. 56, and in several epigrams by Martial: in both cases, even if in different ways, the literary use of compounds and the puns that are connected to them do not seem extraneous to a direct influence of grammatical tradition.
Il fenomeno linguistico delle parole composte non ha attirato soltanto l’interesse dei grammatici, dato che le potenzialità insite nell’incontro e nella saldatura in un unicum fra parole diverse sono state esplorate anche letterariamente: giocando sull’ambiguità e per così dire sulla doppiezza congenita di queste forme, capaci quindi di andare nella direzione dell’enigma, del doppio senso e dell’effetto-sorpresa. Si esamineranno qui dei casi emblematici nel passo petroniano degli apophoreta a Sat. 56, e in diversi epigrammi di Marziale: in entrambi i casi, anche se in modo diverso, l’uso letterario dei composti e i giochi di parole che vi sono collegati non sembrano estranei a un influsso diretto della tradizione grammaticale.
Il gioco dei composti. Petronio e Marziale
Gabriella Moretti
2024-01-01
Abstract
The linguistic phenomenon of compound words has not only attracted the interest of grammarians, given that the potential inherent in the meeting and welding into a unicum between different words has also been explored literaryly: playing on ambiguity and, so to speak, on congenital duplicity of these forms, therefore capable of going in the direction of the enigma, the double meaning and the surprise effect. We will examine here some emblematic cases in the Petronian passage of the apophoreta in Sat. 56, and in several epigrams by Martial: in both cases, even if in different ways, the literary use of compounds and the puns that are connected to them do not seem extraneous to a direct influence of grammatical tradition.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.