Experiential constructions in Latin / Chiara Fedriani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fedriani, Chiara.

Series:

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 3.

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar.

Latin language.

Latin language--Syntax.

Latin language--Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 Introduction

2 The Experiential Situation and Its Components

3 Experiential Constructions in Classical Latin

4 The me pudet Construction

5 Experiential Constructions in Late Latin and Old Italian: A Corpus-based Investigation into Diachronic Syntax

6 Conclusion

References

Index Locorum

Index of Modern Authors

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004257832

9004257837

OCLC:

883570621

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004257832 DOI