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Silvia PIERONI, Università della Tuscia
On the functional distribution of ille and ipse in Late Latin
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion on the distribution of ille and ipse in Late Latin, focusing on the propositional structures in which they occur. Hints concerning propositional contexts have already emerged from previous studies (cf. Renzi 1976, 1992; Selig 1990, 1992; Nocentini 1990; Rosén 1994; Vincent 1998; Giusti 2000; Vangsnes 2001) and two main claims would seem worth verifying: the relevance of the subject position (cf., for instance, Vincent 1998), and the relevance of the VS linear order to the occurrence of subjects marked by ille (as suggested by Rosén 1994).
The tentative scrutiny of Peregrinatio Aetheriae and Saint Augustine's Confessiones reveals that the propositional contexts in which ille and ipse occur coincide, to a meaningful extent, with structures involving esse and with VS intransitives and passives. This suggests the consideration of clause structure according to, on the one hand, the diathetic distinction between active and medial as meaningful of the 'type' of subject involved and, on the other hand, according to the functional traits [± argument] [± predicate], which correspond to the categorial pair noun ~ verb only in the unmarked correlation (La Fauci & Loporcaro 1997, La Fauci 2000).
My suggestion is that singling out the correlations between these functional traits may help to catch the divergences in the syntactic behaviour of ille and ipse without losing the points in common, which, in prospect, allow both to become articles. Moreover, it helps the morphosyntactic formalization of concepts such as 'non-prototypical subjects' and 'presentative predicates', which prove to be relevant to the understanding of the interplay among clause structure, linear order and strategies of definiteness. Lastly, this approach would seem useful in sounding out the functional relationship between the (future) emergence of articles and the general reorganization of morphosyntax from Latin to Romance, mainly as regards the collapse of nominal declension.
References
- Giusti G. (2000) "The birth of a functional category: from ille to the Romance article and personal pronouns. In G. Cinque & G. Salvi (a c. di) Studies in Honour of Lorenzo Renzi, Oxford, Oxford university Press.
- La Fauci N. e M. Loporcaro (1997) "Outline of a theory of existentials on evidence from Romance". SILTA 26/1, 5-55.
- La Fauci N. (2000) Forme romanze della funzione predicativa. Teorie, testi, tassonomie, Pisa, ETS.
- Nocentini A. (1990) "L'uso dei dimostrativi nella Peregrinatio Egeriae e la genesi dell'articolo romanzo". In Atti del Convegno Internazionale sulla Peregrinatio Egeriae (Arezzo, 23-25 ottobre 1987), Arezzo, Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arti e Scienze, 137-65.
- Renzi L. (1976) "Grammatica e storia dell'articolo italiano". Studi di Grammatica Italiana 5, 5-42.
- Renzi L. (1992) "Le développement de l'article en roman". Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 37, 161-176.
- Rosén H. (1994) "The Definite Article in the Making, Nominal Constituent Order, and Related Phenomena". In J. Herman (a c. di) Linguistic Studies on Latin. Selected Papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23-27 March 1991), Amsterdam / Philadelphia, Benjamins, 130-150.
- Selig M. (1990) "Die Entwicklung der Artikel in den romanischen Sprachen". In G. Calboli (a c. di) Latin vulgaire - Latin tardif II. Actes du IIème Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif (Bologne, 29 Août - 2 Septembre 1988), Tübingen, Niemeyer, 219-237.
- Selig M. (1992) Die Entwicklung der Nominaldeterminanten in Spätlatein, Tübingen, Niemeyer.
- Vincent N. (1998) "Tra grammatica e grammaticalizzazione: articoli e clitici nelle lingue (italo)-romanze". In P. Ramat - E. Roma (a c. di) Sintassi storica. Atti del XXX Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Pavia, 26-28 settembre 1996), Roma, Bulzoni, 411-440.
- Vangsnes Ø. A. (2001) "On noun phrase architecture, referentiality, and article systems". Studia Linguistica 55/3, 249-299.
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.
The tentative scrutiny of Peregrinatio Aetheriae and Saint Augustine's Confessiones reveals that the propositional contexts in which ille and ipse occur coincide, to a meaningful extent, with structures involving esse and with VS intransitives and passives. This suggests the consideration of clause structure according to, on the one hand, the diathetic distinction between active and medial as meaningful of the 'type' of subject involved and, on the other hand, according to the functional traits [± argument] [± predicate], which correspond to the categorial pair noun ~ verb only in the unmarked correlation (La Fauci & Loporcaro 1997, La Fauci 2000).
My suggestion is that singling out the correlations between these functional traits may help to catch the divergences in the syntactic behaviour of ille and ipse without losing the points in common, which, in prospect, allow both to become articles. Moreover, it helps the morphosyntactic formalization of concepts such as 'non-prototypical subjects' and 'presentative predicates', which prove to be relevant to the understanding of the interplay among clause structure, linear order and strategies of definiteness. Lastly, this approach would seem useful in sounding out the functional relationship between the (future) emergence of articles and the general reorganization of morphosyntax from Latin to Romance, mainly as regards the collapse of nominal declension.
- References
- Giusti G. (2000) "The birth of a functional category: from ille to the Romance article and personal pronouns. In G. Cinque & G. Salvi (a c. di) Studies in Honour of Lorenzo Renzi, Oxford, Oxford university Press.
- La Fauci N. e M. Loporcaro (1997) "Outline of a theory of existentials on evidence from Romance". SILTA 26/1, 5-55.
- La Fauci N. (2000) Forme romanze della funzione predicativa. Teorie, testi, tassonomie, Pisa, ETS.
- Nocentini A. (1990) "L'uso dei dimostrativi nella Peregrinatio Egeriae e la genesi dell'articolo romanzo". In Atti del Convegno Internazionale sulla Peregrinatio Egeriae (Arezzo, 23-25 ottobre 1987), Arezzo, Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arti e Scienze, 137-65.
- Renzi L. (1976) "Grammatica e storia dell'articolo italiano". Studi di Grammatica Italiana 5, 5-42.
- Renzi L. (1992) "Le développement de l'article en roman". Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 37, 161-176.
- Rosén H. (1994) "The Definite Article in the Making, Nominal Constituent Order, and Related Phenomena". In J. Herman (a c. di) Linguistic Studies on Latin. Selected Papers from the 6th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Budapest, 23-27 March 1991), Amsterdam / Philadelphia, Benjamins, 130-150.
- Selig M. (1990) "Die Entwicklung der Artikel in den romanischen Sprachen". In G. Calboli (a c. di) Latin vulgaire - Latin tardif II. Actes du IIème Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif (Bologne, 29 Août - 2 Septembre 1988), Tübingen, Niemeyer, 219-237.
- Selig M. (1992) Die Entwicklung der Nominaldeterminanten in Spätlatein, Tübingen, Niemeyer.
- Vincent N. (1998) "Tra grammatica e grammaticalizzazione: articoli e clitici nelle lingue (italo)-romanze". In P. Ramat - E. Roma (a c. di) Sintassi storica. Atti del XXX Congresso Internazionale della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Pavia, 26-28 settembre 1996), Roma, Bulzoni, 411-440.
- Vangsnes Ø. A. (2001) "On noun phrase architecture, referentiality, and article systems". Studia Linguistica 55/3, 249-299.
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.