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Brucale, Luisa
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Manner of motion verbs in Latin
2011
In this talk I present the theoretical premises, methodology, corpus, and preliminary results of an ongoing research carried on with Egle Mocciaro (University of Palermo) and Claudio Iacobini (University of Salerno) on the encoding of motion expression in Latin. Some data concerning manner of motion expression in Classical Latin are presented and commented. o Main aim: • to make a first approach towards the manner-of-motion encoding strategies in Latin o Outline: 1. Overview of the main proposals about the typology of motion event encoding • Talmy’s classification of motion event lexicalization patterns • Definitions of the manner component in motion encoding • Connection between manner sal…
Multi-factorial sicilian modals: a case of continuity in discourse
2008
We intend to analyze a few constructions, in Sicilian (S) and in the variety of Italian spoken in Sicily (IS), involving the modals voliri (S)/volere (IS) “want” and aviri a (S)/dovere (IS) “have to”. They are used to express both modal values, along a deontic→epistemic continuum, and futurity (Sicilian, but not Italian, lacks a synthetic future). Modality has been traditionally defined as the linguistic manifestation of the speaker’s attitude towards his utterance. However, modality does not have an unambiguous treatment and there is no agreement on number and kind of semantic categories that can be completely defined as modals (cf. Bybee et al. 1994; Palmer 2001; Nuyts 2005). From a cogni…
The interaction of temporal-aspectual features in modal polysemy: a case-study from Sicilian
2009
THE INTERACTION OF TEMPORAL-ASPECTUAL FEATURES IN MODAL POLYSEMY: A CASE-STUDY FROM SICILIAN. We intend to analyse a number of Sicilian constructions involving the modal vuliri “want” and the modal periphrasis aviri a “have to+ infinitive”. They are used to express both modal values and futurity (Sicilian, but not Italian, lacks a synthetic future). Our analysis is largely based on Cognitive Grammar, according to which modality is a strategy of grounding, involving different kinds of subjectification (Langacker 1991; Traugott 1989), variously grammaticalised in languages. The scalar nature of grammaticalisation processes (Heine et al. 1991) also accounts for the polysemous behaviour of moda…
Dissimilazione
2010
Voce inserita nell'Enciclopedia dell'italiano Treccani (EncIt): il meccanismo della dissimilazione è indagato in una prospettiva sincronica - relativa ai nessi dissimilati dell'italiano contemporaneo - sia diacronica. Il contributo indaga il processo dissimilatorio allo scopo di ricercarne le motivazioni e di chiarire i contesti di occorrenza.
Grammaticalization of actional values in Archaic Latin
2008
This paper aims at showing how prefixation does not modify systematically the actional value of Latin verbs. Scholars of historical grammars of Indoeuropean languages and traditional studies about prefixation agree with the idea that in Latin, and in all Indoeuropean languages, preverbation results on actional value of predicates: Delbruck 1897 argued that prefixes perfectivize verbal meaning since they indicate its accomplishment; Meillet and Vendryes 1924 claimed that the prefixe focuses a specific point of the process described by the non prefixed verb; van der Heide 1934 believed that Latin preverbs express the accomplishment of the process denotated by the non prefixed verbs. More rece…
Paths of grammaticalisation of the Early Latin per/per-: a cognitive hypothesis
2010
We intend to analyse the polysemic network of the Early Latin preverb per- and the relationship linking it with the corresponding preposition per ‘through’. Our corpus is constituted by Plautus’ comedies and Cato’s De Agri Cultura, which represent a substantial sample of the oldest Latin attestations in an extensive and non-fragmentary form. This choice allows a broad survey of the formerly grammaticalised usages of the preverb, constituting a firm platform to gain a perspective on its evolutionary lines. Our analysis is based on the Functional-Cognitive approach to grammaticalisation (Langacker 1987, 1991; Heine et al. 1991; Hopper & Traugott 1993), as well as on the existent functional an…
La morfologia del greco tra tipologia e diacronia
2007
Questo lavoro si inserisce in un più ampio tentativo di ricostruire, con un metodo che possa caratterizzarsi come ‘scientifico’, il quadro della morfologia derivazionale del greco antico. La morfologia teorica, e quella lessicale in particolare, si avvalgono delle intuizioni del parlante nativo al fine di esplicitare la consistenza dei processi morfologici e la loro produttività; nel caso di una lingua ‘morta’ all’analista viene meno tutta la messe di dati che possono essere elicitati dalla specifica competenza dei parlanti nativi su fatti inerenti alla propria lingua. Per questo motivo ho pensato di ‘interrogare’, seppur in modo affatto eterodosso, Apollonio Discolo quale parlante nativo c…
Typological change in the expression of motion events from Latin to Romance languages.
2011
Romance languages differ from other Indo-European languages (e.g. Germanic languages) in the expression of motion events. In a broad typological perspective, they are classified as Verb-Framed languages, in contrast with Latin, which is considered Satellite-Framed (Talmy 2000); however, recent proposals tend to refine this classification in terms of preferred constructions (in given contexts) rather than global types (Beavers et al. 2010). The rich documentation of both Latin and Romance varieties allows us to evaluate this typological change within its synchronic and diachronic contexts and variation factors. Moreover, although the encoding of motion events has recently drawn a great deal …