Abstract
In 1990s, there was a research made concerning use of demonstrative pronouns and metalinguistic participles (supradictus, suprascriptus, etc.) in legal Latin. This research was based on a wide corpus of legal texts from 2nd century BC to Middle Ages (SELIG M.: 1992; CALBOLI G.:1997) with two main conclusions. Firstly, the adjectival use of the pronouns/participles prevails over the substantival one (with the significant exception of is) and secondly, the use of these pronouns/prticiples in adjectival use differs diachronically (decrease of is and more extensive use of metalinguistic participles, ipse, iste and ille).
However, Iustinianʼs Digest as a representative of legal language has not been included in this corpus.
In this contribution we therefore focus on adjectival vs. substantival use of demonstrative pronouns as well as on their frequency and distribution in the text of Digest. Our findings arecompared and contrasted to those of previous research.