O acento em combinações com partículas enclíticas em latim

Abstract

This paper presents a study about enclitic stress in Latin. According to the testimonies of a number of Roman grammarians, enclitics like the monosyllabic conjunction -que uniformly induce stress on the immediately preceding syllable, i.e., the final syllable of the host word, irrespective of syllable quantity. However, we will show that the weight of the immediately preceding syllable plays a crucial role in enclitic stress: if this syllable is heavy, the stress falls on it; if it is light, the stress falls on the same position it would fall in the host word without the enclitic.