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(104‐109) Six proposals on the grammar of epithets
Author(s) -
Sennikov Alexander N.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.12705/646.36
Subject(s) - epithet , herbarium , citation , library science , grammar , history , classics , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , paleontology , biology
With constantly increasing difficulties in reading classical texts written in the Latin language comes the need for clarification of certain grammatical issues connected with the names of organisms governed by the ICN (McNeill & al. in Regnum Veg. 154. 2012). In this contribution I propose to specify that adjectival epithets are to be in the nominative case and may be not only adjectives but also participles used as adjectives. I also propose that when protologues contain names in different inflectional forms, which typically cause difficulties in interpretation, such forms do not preclude valid publication of the names.