The position of Focus constituents in Latin: A comparison between Latin and Czech

Spevak, Olga

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.09.003

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“…40 Sobre el concepto de "dinamismo comunicativo", cf. Firbas (1992: p. 7), Cabrillana (1992) y las matizaciones de Spevak (2008).…”

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Presencia, función y orden de constituyentes de algunas construcciones monovalentes en la Peregrinatio Egeriae

Cabrillana¹

2021

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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This paper has its starting point in the search for the causes of the very frequent presence of a possible monovalent predicate (fio) in the Peregrinatio Egeriae. The use of fio to present the development of repeated actions, often rituals, justifies its frequency -especially in the second part of the work -and, more specifically, the almost exclusive use of its passive factivity meaning. This fact is intrinsically linked to the use of the lexical or morphological passive to carry out this presentation of facts that usually constitute an entirely new piece of information from a pragmatic perspective, something that implies a determined order of constituents and the activation of an inversion mechanism, so that the majority sequence turns out to be Verb--S(ubject). This reality is corroborated by the study of the behaviour of predicates with similar characteristics and functionality. Among other related reasons, the selection of the passive -which has a pragmatic motivation and which is triggered as a textual cohesion device -to present the verbal process from the point of view of the event itself is revealed as one of the most explanatory causes of the concrete reality present in the text under investigation.

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“…40 Sobre el concepto de "dinamismo comunicativo", cf. Firbas (1992: p. 7), Cabrillana (1992) y las matizaciones de Spevak (2008).…”

Section: El Verbo Fiounclassified

Presencia, función y orden de constituyentes de algunas construcciones monovalentes en la Peregrinatio Egeriae

Cabrillana¹

2021

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery

Wolfe

2022

Probus

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Despite the vast literature which has accrued on the fine structure of the Romance left periphery, there exists no diachronic account of the emergence of the considerable microvariation between Romance varieties today. Focussing in particular on the syntax of French and Venetan varieties, this article suggests that certain northern Romance varieties have diverged maximally from an Early Medieval Romance norm in which each left-peripheral Head attracts a wide variety of suitable Goals for movement, unlike the ‘innovative’ Romance grammars which emerge in the post-medieval period where the suitable class of Goals becomes restricted along categorial or information-structural grounds. The account predicts that the most ‘conservative’ Modern Romance grammars allow widespread argument fronting via movement, whereas their most ‘innovative’ counterparts show heavy restrictions on such operations.

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Word order in Latin locative constructions: a corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico

Skopeteas

2011

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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Classical Latin is a free word order language, i.e., the order of the constituents is determined by information structure rather than by syntactic rules. This article presents a corpus study on the word order of locative constructions and shows that the choice between a Theme-first and a Locative-first order is influenced by the discourse status of the referents. Furthermore, the corpus findings reveal a striking impact of the syntactic construction: complements of motion verbs do not have the same ordering preferences with complements of static verbs and adjuncts. This finding supports the view that the influence of discourse status on word order is indirect, i.e., it is mediated by information structural domains.

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The position of Focus constituents in Latin: A comparison between Latin and Czech

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Presencia, función y orden de constituyentes de algunas construcciones monovalentes en la Peregrinatio Egeriae

Presencia, función y orden de constituyentes de algunas construcciones monovalentes en la Peregrinatio Egeriae

Microvariation and Change in the Romance Left Periphery

Word order in Latin locative constructions: a corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico

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