Consentius was a 5th century Gallic grammarian and the author of two treatises, which are perhaps the fragments of a complete grammar: one on the noun and the verb, much used during the Carolingian period, and the other on barbarisms and metaplasm. The 5th century is the period from 401 to 500 in accordance with the Julian calendar in Anno Domini / Common Era. Grammar is the field of Linguistics that covers the Rules governing the use of any given natural language. Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his Barbarism refers to a non-standard Word, Expression or Pronunciation in a Language. A metaplasm is a change to the Orthography of a word It is a common occurrence in the natural evolution of languages and is also used as a technique in Poetry and
Some of Consentius' ideas are surprisingly modern for a "Dark Age" scholar. This article is about the phrase "Dark Age(s" as a characterization of the Early Middle Ages in Western Europe He explicitly differentiates signifié and signifiant, the word itself and the thing signified by it. Course in General Linguistics ( Cours de linguistique générale) is the influential book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye Course in General Linguistics ( Cours de linguistique générale) is the influential book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye He explains grammatical gender by saying that masculine or feminine gender was ascribed, either randomly or by some consensus (seu licenter seu decenter), to some entities which lack natural gender. In Linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called Noun classes are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words every noun must belong
References
- Keil, Grammatici Latini (Leipzig), vol. V, p. 336.
- Thorsten Fögen, Der Grammatiker Consentius, Glotta 74 (1997/98), 164-192.
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