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In this paper, Livy's use of the Latin narrative tenses is examined from a functionalist point of view. Assuming that three levels of meaning (referential, textual and interpersonal) potentially underly paradigmatic choices in grammatical systems, "tense" and "aspect" are conceived of as three-dimensional categories related to the communicative int...
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... main function is to describe the simultaneous background against a given foreground. There are a number of types depending especially on the Aktionsart, as indicated in Table 9. In example (1) above, the subordinate clauses containing the states erat and poterat provide an explanatory background to the actions of the consuls (proposuit and traduxit, respectively). ...Citations
... Finally, note also that the Vetus Latina has timuerunt invariably. 13 12 On the complexive perfect and its aspectual foundations, seeAerts (2021aAerts ( : 55-56, 2021b and references therein. 13 Consulted at https://apps.brepolis.net/vld/ ...
... IND. (7.3 %).'anterior situations' or 'absolute past situations' (seeAerts 2021aAerts : 59, 2021b, resulting in a lower occurrence rate of INGRESSIVITY with indicative tense forms than in narrative discourse (24.8 % vs. 43.6 %) ...
After the merger of the perfect and aorist stems, the resulting perfectum stem in Latin kept its less central functions such as resultativity and ingressivity as marked aspectual meanings in its semantic potential. Occurring first in literary and especially poetic text, as a dormant, archaic function, its use was revived in the 4th century due to intensifying exchanges with New Testament Greek, where the ingressive aorist was still more productive. The current paper examines, on the basis of a representative sample selected from all relevant time periods and various text types, perfectum stem forms of a substantial number of stative verbs in a close-reading process, in order to ascertain more accurately the dynamics of the diachrony of Latin ingressivity. The occurrence rate of this form-function pairing is compared to significant alternations of a number of contextual factors, such as discourse type, mood, predicate fronting and the dynamics in the system of lexical ingressivity.
... For essentially temporal view of Latin tense system seePinkster (1983), for aspectual view see e.g.Oldsjö (2001), for the aspectual opposition with the imperfectum/perfectum tenses see e.g.Haverling (2010), for a balanced view see e.g.Pinkster (2015). For a three-dimensional view on Latin aspect seeAerts (2021), whose view differs from the one presented here and does not include prefixes. 3 E.g.Filip (1999),Nekula (1995),Verkuyl (2005), specifically for LatinVaníková (2019). ...
This paper investigates the role of the verbal prefix ex- as a component in Latin aspect. The author provides definitions of “aspect”, “Aktionsart” and “situation type”, and particularly sets light to the term “telicity”, distinguishing between the “inherent telicity” and “maximal telicity”. Based on a meticulous examination of all occurrences of the indicative imperfect of verbs with the prefix ex- in a comprehensive corpus encompassing well-preserved Latin texts from Plautus to Ovid, the author verifies her hypothesis that the prefix ex- adds the notion of telicity to the verbs, and that the most common interpretation of their imperfects is the iterativity of telic events.
