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Silvia LURAGHI, University of Pavia
Cause expressions in Latin
Possible means for encoding the Semantic Role Cause in Latin include NP's in the ablative and various types of PP's. In my paper I will examine the distribution of different types of Cause expression, in connection with a number of other variables, i.e. in controlled/uncontrolled States of Affairs, with verbs of emotion, with active/passive voice, with concrete/abstract nouns, etc. The paper will contain a preliminary discussion of semantic features relevant for Cause, and will be based on a corpus of prose writers from the 1st century BCE. I will also analyze the meaning of prepositions occurring in Cause expressions and the possible metaphors that underlie semantic extention from concrete spatial meaning to Cause.
Most recent modifications: February 18, 2003 – latling@classics.unibo.it
Source: Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale
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Most recent modifications: February 18, 2003 – latling@classics.unibo.it
Source: Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale
No rights can be derived from the information on this Internet-page.