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“Intensive” verbal prefixes in Archaic Latin

  • Davide Bertocci

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.

  • Keywords:
  • Latin,
  • prefixes,
  • resultative,
  • prepositions,
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Davide Bertocci

University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3555-3134

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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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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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272

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2017

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Firenze University Press

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