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Intensificatori e soggettificazione in latino: sulla grammaticalizzazione di maxime

2022

The aim of this paper is to investigate the grammaticalization path of the intensifying adverb maxime in Early Latin, within the perspective of the so-called ‘subjectification’ theory. Despite the difficulty of drawing discrete boundaries within the multifunctional category of adverbs, the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic analysis of maxime across different contexts of use allows us to identify at least three main functions of this adverb in early Latin texts, mostly in the Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence. In particular, adopting the perspective of the Functional Discourse Grammar, it is shown that maxime is used as (i) degree adverb, which modifies a large range of elements acting at …

intensifiers subjectification discourse markers grammaticalization LatinSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Aportació a l'estudi de la conjunció concessiva «jatsia»

2007

Concessive connectors are the focal point of grammaticalization processes, based on several types of lexical sources. In Catalan, «jatsia» (that) is the result of a grammaticalization process based on an aspectual temporary adverb (or phase adverb), which is comparable to the process that produced «encara que». The case of «encara que» has already been studied specifically by Pérez Saldanya & Salvador (1995), while Klesper (1930), Badia (1982) and Cuenca & Massip (2005) have focused on «jatsia» (that). The interest of the study of these processes is increased in the case of «jatsia»(that) by the polymorphism it shows and by the displacement it has experimented in its use, since it has gone …

lcsh:Language and LiteratureUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASLingüísticaFilologíasconcessive conjunctionsubordinationregulations.ancient Catalanconcessive sentencelcsh:Philology. Linguisticscomplex sentencelcsh:P1-1091:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]ancient Catalan; syntax; complex sentence; subordination; concessive sentence; concessive conjunctive locution; concessive conjunction; concessive connector; grammaticalization; aspectual temporary adverb; regulations.lcsh:Pconcessive connectorsyntaxgrammaticalizationconcessive conjunctive locutionaspectual temporary adverb
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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…

polysemymodalcognitive linguisticstemporal-aspectual featuregrammaticalizationSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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