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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Latin Linguistics at Ghent University (Belgium). My main research interests are: the Classical and Late Latin verb systems, semantics, corpus linguistics, and Systemic Functional Linguistics. My PhD project was "A Systemic Functional 'Three-Dimensional' Approach to Tense and Aspect in the Writings of Livy and Gregory of Tours."
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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 i...
Interpreting grammatical aspect as a category that conveys meaning on three dimensions might serve to better understand and appreciate the semantic potential of the narrative tenses in Latin historiography. Similarly to Livy's, Gregory of Tours' language features a number of 'tense uses' where aspect plays a decisive role. However, the rise of morp...
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...
Dit hoofdstuk in het themanummer van Didactica Classica Gandensia dat uitgebracht werd naar aanleiding van de studiedag "Latijn anders? Anders Latijn!" aan de Universiteit Gent op 21 mei 2021, is bedoeld om leerkrachten klassieke talen te informeren en te inspireren over de haalbaarheid en het nut van diachroon-taalkundige aspecten van niet-klassie...
The current paper defends the existence of aspect in Latin by proposing a three-dimensional (SFL-inspired) interpretation of both aspect and tense. The traditional usage labels of the tenses can all be framed within the framework proposed in this paper. Moreover, the interpersonal meaning of perspective, similar to focalization, adds an important i...
The current paper examines the statistical correlation between a number of cotextual cues and the latent variable of perspective in a corpus of episodes taken from Livy's narrative. The possible perspectives (external, internal, scenic camera-eye, immersive eyewitness and distanced eyewitness; cf. "focalization" in narratological studies) featured...
The current paper investigates the three-dimensional meaning potential of the Late Latin narrative tenses. The grammatical categories ‘tense’ and ‘aspect’ are hypothesized to express meaning on the three metafunctional levels posited by Systemic Functional Linguistics. Combinations of their ideational and textual dimensions can be used to classify...
During this talk, I presented part of my research to a broad audience of PhD students in linguistics and of translation, interpreting and communication studies. I focused on the interpersonal meaning of perspective as conveyed by the Classical and Late Latin tenses in narratives by means of the grammatical categories of tense and aspect. I illustra...
The Classical Latin verb system displays a twofold morphological distinction between perfectum and infectum tenses, based on the verb stems of which the exact nature - relative tense (e.g. Pinkster 1983, 2015; Kroon 2007; Adema 2008) vs. grammatical aspect (e.g. Touratier 1994; Oldsjö 2001; Haverling 2010) - has been a matter of much debate. The di...
The Latin verb tenses are divided into two groups, based on the perfectum and infectum stems. Linguists still disagree on the semantics involved, viz. anteriority vs. simultaneity (relative tense, cf. Pinkster 1983, 2015; Kroon 2007; Adema 2008) or perfectivity vs. imperfectivity (grammatical aspect, cf. Oldsjö 2001; Haverling 2010). Problematic in...
In this presentation for an audience of scholars working in a variety of disciplines within classics, I presented a short introduction on my PhD project, followed by a case study I conducted which statistically investigates the association between a number of cotextual cues and the annotation of verb tense (perfect - imperfect - historic present) a...
This paper introduces the framework for a new project on the categories of tense, aspect and Aktionsart in Latin. In the first section, the relevant concepts are defined in terms of general linguistics. The second section provides an overview of the existing theories regarding the verb system and the categories of tense and aspect in Latin. Their s...
In this presentation, I presented my PhD project to a broad, international audience of professors and PhD students working in Classics (mainly archeology, history, literature, and theology). I focussed on visualising my theoretical concepts and on some first ideas concerning cotextual cues: what elements in the text allow us - as nonnative speakers...
In this presentation for an audience of latinists (mainly linguistics and literature), I read a number of illustrative fragments which seemed to indicate, among other things, that (a) aspect is necessary in the Latin verb system to properly understand some of the language data (b) the grammaticalization of the analytical perfect (habere + past part...
In this presentation for an audience of linguists who study a wide range of languages, I presented the Systemic Functional Linguistic framework for the analysis of the use of the verb tenses in Late Latin historiographical narrative (Gregory of Tours). I illustrated how a three-dimensional interpretation of tense and grammatical aspect may contribu...
In this presentation for Dutch speaking linguists of Latin and Ancient Greek, I presented my Systemic Functional Linguistic framework for the close-reading of my corpus texts (Livy, Classical Latin), on the basis of which my data is annotated. I illustrated the use and usefulness of the framework for the analysis of the meaning conveyed by the narr...
This paper approaches Ancient Greek aspect from a modern systemic functional framework. Its primary claim is that three metafunctions or dimensions (ideational, textual, and interpersonal) are necessary but also sufficient to account for all of the individual main clause verbs in historical narrative. The basic semantic value of the present and aor...
