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Verb inflection in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit and auxiliation patterns in French and Italian. Forms, functions, system

Nunzio La FauciLiana Tronci

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Linguistics and LanguageHistory470 Latin & Italic languagesVerb410 LinguisticsAncient GreekSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguisticasintassi morfo-sintassi ausiliazione francese italiano greco antico sanscritoForm and functionInflectionSanskritLiteraturebusiness.industryIndo-European languagesFrench800 Literature rhetoric & criticismLinguisticslanguage.human_language3310 Linguistics and LanguageIf and only if460 Spanish & Portuguese languageslanguage450 Italian Romanian & related languagesbusiness440 French & related languages10103 Institute of Romance Studies

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This paper deals with the complex interaction between form and function in the verb morphosyntax of four Indo-European languages (French, Italian, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Beyond the difference in form, auxiliation patterns in French and Italian, and verb inflections in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit correlate, thanks to the agreement for number and person, to the expression of the relationship with the Subject. The different auxiliation patterns (sum and habeo) and the different inflections (middle and active) correlate to different properties of the Subject. In particular, these forms depend on the syntactic opposition between middle and non-middle. The ways of this dependency are regulated and systematic, although they appear fuzzy and chaotic, not only if the four languages are compared to each other, but also if different morphosyntactic combinations, inside the same language, are concerned.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-06-25
10.5167/uzh-27005https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/27005/