This article presents a pilot study of the use of moods and tenses in Danish humanist Latin after ne and cum. Comparing descriptions in humanist school grammars with linguistic practice, three states of humanist Latin are under investigation in minor text corpora: literary prose from fifteenth-century Italy, literary prose from sixteenth-century Denmark, and entrance exams from the University of Copenhagen (1631– 32). The results indicate that the distribution of moods and the sequence of tenses are stable grammatical systems that exist in all three states of Latin, though with less variation in the Danish Latin variants.
Bidragets oversatte titel
When the Danish School Systematized Humanist Latin: Tempus and Mood after ne and cum