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Andrea NUTI, University of Pisa
The habeo + PPP construction in archaic Latin
The aim of this paper is to offer a basic description of the habeo + PPP (passive perfect participle) construction in archaic Latin. Exemplification will be given mostly from Plautus, Terence and Cato's de agricultura. The attention will be focussed on semantic features, verbal classes and the contexts that might have favoured reanalysis phenomena that lead the way to the periphrastic forms of later Latin.
According to my data, early cases where the habeo + PPP construction shows the loss of a full, lexical-semantic content and displays a mainly grammatical-relational function can be seen already in Plautus. These very early cases at first do not occur yet with the specific verbal classes of cognition/communication verbs (that play a role in further stages, exemplified in Cicero's language), but they seem to be related to other verbs and contexts.
I will try to show that the contexts where a purely relational function begins to appear are a consequence of the specific features that characterize habeo as a possessive verb in archaic Latin.
References
- Detges 2000 = Ulrich Detges, Time and Truth: The Grammaticalization of Resultatives and Perfects within a Theory of Subjectification, "Studies in Language" 24:2, 2000, pp. 345-377.
- Harris 1982 = Martin Harris, The "past simple" and the "present perfect" in Romance, in Nigel Vincent-Martin Harris (eds.), Studies in the Romance Verb, Essays Offered to Joe Cremona on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Croom Helm, London-Canberra 1982, pp. 42-70.
- La Fauci 1988 = Nunzio La Fauci, Oggetti e soggetti nella formazione della morfosintassi romanza, Giardini, Pisa 1988.
- La Fauci 1991 = Nunzio La Fauci, La continuitą nella diversitą formale: aspetti di morfo-sintassi diacronica romanza, in Vincenzo Orioles (ed.), Innovazione e conservazione nelle lingue. Atti del Convegno della Societą Italiana di Glottologia, Messina 9-11 novembre 1989, Giardini, Pisa 1991, pp. 135-158.
- Pinkster 1987 = Harm Pinkster, The strategy and Chronology of the Development of the Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin, in Martin Harris-Paolo Ramat (eds.), Historical Development of the Auxiliaries, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam 1987, pp. 193-223.
- Vincent 1982 = Nigel Vincent, The development of the auxiliaries HABERE and ESSE in Romance, in Nigel Vincent-Martin Harris (eds.), Studies in the Romance Verb, Essays Offered to Joe Cremona on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Croom Helm, London-Canberra 1982, pp. 71-96.
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.
According to my data, early cases where the habeo + PPP construction shows the loss of a full, lexical-semantic content and displays a mainly grammatical-relational function can be seen already in Plautus. These very early cases at first do not occur yet with the specific verbal classes of cognition/communication verbs (that play a role in further stages, exemplified in Cicero's language), but they seem to be related to other verbs and contexts.
I will try to show that the contexts where a purely relational function begins to appear are a consequence of the specific features that characterize habeo as a possessive verb in archaic Latin.
- References
- Detges 2000 = Ulrich Detges, Time and Truth: The Grammaticalization of Resultatives and Perfects within a Theory of Subjectification, "Studies in Language" 24:2, 2000, pp. 345-377.
- Harris 1982 = Martin Harris, The "past simple" and the "present perfect" in Romance, in Nigel Vincent-Martin Harris (eds.), Studies in the Romance Verb, Essays Offered to Joe Cremona on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Croom Helm, London-Canberra 1982, pp. 42-70.
- La Fauci 1988 = Nunzio La Fauci, Oggetti e soggetti nella formazione della morfosintassi romanza, Giardini, Pisa 1988.
- La Fauci 1991 = Nunzio La Fauci, La continuitą nella diversitą formale: aspetti di morfo-sintassi diacronica romanza, in Vincenzo Orioles (ed.), Innovazione e conservazione nelle lingue. Atti del Convegno della Societą Italiana di Glottologia, Messina 9-11 novembre 1989, Giardini, Pisa 1991, pp. 135-158.
- Pinkster 1987 = Harm Pinkster, The strategy and Chronology of the Development of the Future and Perfect Tense Auxiliaries in Latin, in Martin Harris-Paolo Ramat (eds.), Historical Development of the Auxiliaries, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York-Amsterdam 1987, pp. 193-223.
- Vincent 1982 = Nigel Vincent, The development of the auxiliaries HABERE and ESSE in Romance, in Nigel Vincent-Martin Harris (eds.), Studies in the Romance Verb, Essays Offered to Joe Cremona on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Croom Helm, London-Canberra 1982, pp. 71-96.
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.