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The paper focuses on the invention of a Proto-Latin language for the film Il primo Re by M. Rovere (2019). The language was created with the explicit aim of producing a barbaric and primitivistic effect on the hearer. The method used to invent it is summed up in the formula: back in time, but still in place. We started from Classical Latin and "antiquated" it exploiting the data from historical Latin and Indo-European linguistics, but we avoided mixing Latin with different languages. The result is a particular type of language ex inventione: the single chunks that compose it are all plausible reconstructions from the scientific point of view, but they are not attested and have never co-existed as such. Language science and the human instinct for creativity (verbigeratio ludica) are therefore the two sources from which the language of the film was created. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the domain of Indo-European linguistics, Tocharian is now playing a more important role, which has been favoured by the increasing availability of the texts. The present article examines the concept of "creativity" in historical linguistics, by analysing palaeographic and linguistic matters related to hapax legomena, emendations, and conjectural readings in Tocharian manuscripts. The goals of this short paper are twofold: (1) on the one hand, it aims to provide a new reading of the line b4 in the Tocharian B fragment B530 and comment on the new discovered word TB nekīta '±destroyer'; (2) on the other hand, it is finalised at analysing the apparent irregularities of the paradigm of TB pīto 'price, cost'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]