Особенности языка «Страстей св. Сусанны» (BHL 7937). Падеж и род

Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология. 2021. Т. 25. С. 1237–1274.

Shumilin M.

The article continues the study of the Passio S. Susannae (BHL 7937) as a text of the 5th or 6th cent. AD that was originally composed in a language characterized by many as departing from Classical Latin. The ‘non-classical’ linguistic features connected with the categories of case and gender that can be indentified in the manuscripts of the Passio S. Susannae are taken into account: the use of prepositional constructions in place of the expected oblique cases without prepositions; the generalization of the accusative; the use of the nominative in place of the accusative; ‘non-classical’ noun gender; the use of masculine as a default gender with non-classical controllers; ‘non-classical’ use of gender forms of the relative pronoun. It is suggested that most ‘non-classical’ features connected with case and gender that are found in the manuscripts belong to the original text of the Passio, since in these aspects ‘barbarization’ does not seem to have been characteristic of early medieval scribes. It is concluded that in
most respects the text is similar to other 6th cent. texts which are characterized by many ‘non-classical’ features like the Anonymus Valesianus II. One feature that seems to be unparalleled in Late Latin but apparently reliably attested in the manuscripts of the text and plausible from the point of view of later Romance development is the use of masculine as a default gender with non-classical controllers (in particular, with neuter pronouns without antecedent nouns).

Keywords: падеж, gender, case, романские языки, род, Romance languages, Passio Susannae, late Latin, "Страсти св. Сусанны", поздняя латынь, 'normalization', "нормализация"