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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812941103321

Autore

Fedriani Chiara

Titolo

Experiential constructions in Latin / / by Chiara Fedriani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-25783-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, , 2211-4904 ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

475

Soggetti

Latin language - Morphology

Latin language - Syntax

Language and emotions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Experiential Situation and Its Components -- 3 Experiential Constructions in Classical Latin -- 4 The me pudet Construction -- 5 Experiential Constructions in Late Latin and Old Italian: A Corpus-based Investigation into Diachronic Syntax -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index of Modern Authors -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.