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65 THE CHRISTIAN "SPECIAL LANGUAGE" IN THE INSCRIPTIONS BY BETTY I. KNOTT Since the appearance of J. Schrijnen's Die Charakteristik dens altchristlichen Latein in 1932, a considerable amount has been done to substantiate by detailed study his general theory of the special form assumed by Latin to meet the needs of the Christian community - the 'altchristliche Sondersprache'. Articles which have appeared in earlier volumes of Vigiliae Christianae 1 have demonstrated the steady differentiation of the Latin of the Christian writers from that of contemporary pagans. The beginnings in the first two centuries of the Christian era are small but definite. Even at this period the distinctive features are not only a number of technical terms for things Christian as such, e.g. apostoluns, salvator, salvare, baptizare - these additions to vocabulary are of the kind we should expect to find in any special language - but, far more important, features which do not arise directly from the need to adapt the existing linguistic material to the expression of Christian ideas. These consist in i) words expressing conceptions not confined to Christianity, which for some reason are found mainly or exclusively in Christian writers, ii) various syntactical constructions, again
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1956
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