The goal of this paper is to give a brief outline of the synchronic conditions which trigger the emergence of aspectual values in Latin verbal prefixes. In particular, I will show that such a possibility is not the result of bare semantic effects, lexicalization of idioms or compounding strategies; rather, aspectual preverbation crucially has to do with syntactic factors, namely the argument structure of the verb, the prepositional character of the prefixes, and the interactions between those components.
University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3555-3134
Chapter Title
“Intensive” verbal prefixes in Archaic Latin
Authors
Davide Bertocci
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.05
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Publication Year
2017
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Book Title
The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality
Book Subtitle
Issues of grammaticalization
Editors
Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro, Svetlana Slavkova
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Number of Pages
272
Publication Year
2017
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© 2017 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-697-2
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-698-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-128-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679