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Syntactic Change in the History of Latin: Do New Perspectives Lead to New Results?
No full textThis chapter attempts a global interpretation of the Latin data from a diachronic point of view in a functional-typological framewor
Comparative and Superlative
No full textThis chapter provides a description of the expression of compartive and superlative in Latin, from the Indo-European backgrounds to Late Latin within a functional-typological framewor
Grecismi sintattici antichi e grecismi sintattici tardi: osservazioni per un riesame anche terminologico
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Some remarks on the infinitivus indignantis. Is this label necessary?
No full textThe present paper focusses on the issue of the terminological labels used in grammatical descriptions and to what extent they are necessary. The label discussed here is the so-called infinitivus indignantis, mainly employed to express emotions like surprise, disdain, indignation. To this construction handbooks and grammars generally devote just a few lines. In this paper it will be shown that the syntactic features associated with this pattern occur with other similar constructions and are not exclusive thereof. The question is raised whether this pattern could be analyzed and subsumed under the category of mirativity. At the end of the analysis of this type of infinitive, it is claimed that infinitivus indignantis is not a necessary label
Negative adjectival morphology in Latin.
No full textIn the present paper the evaluation of a new etymology for the word uirgō ‘virgin’ serves as occasion for an overview of the morphological prefixes by means of which Latin encodes negation on adjectives and nouns. Using the theoretical framework, whose origin ultimately goes back to Aristotle, three varieties of negation will be described: contrariety, contradiction, and privation. As will be shown, all these varieties, and privation in particular, require some theoretical refinement: in some cases, instead of contrariety, some more adequate conceptualizations are preferable such as neutralization or reverse. In this paper the seven prefixes used to encode negation on adjectives and nouns – dē-, dis-, ex-, in-, nĕ-, sē-, uē- – will be described also diachronically, and for each of them their original function will be tentatively identified
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