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[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 239] 2017
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State and change of state in Latin

A view from the Lexicon-Syntax interface

Published online: 14 June 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.239.16mat
This paper offers a syntactic account of Haverling’s (1994 ff.) descriptive insights regarding the formation of both stative verbs and -sco verbs expressing change in Early and Classical Latin. In particular, the formal distinction between incorporation and conflation (cfr. Haugen 2008, 2009 and Mateu 2012, i.a.) is shown to be useful when dealing with the formation of these verbs. Following Acedo-Matellán and Mateu’s (2013) formal account of Talmy’s (1991, 2000) typology of motion events, the paper also addresses the question of why aspectual resultative prefixation is a phenomenon that is expected to be found in a satellite-framed language like Latin (e.g., cfr. inarescere ‘to start becoming dry’) but not in verb-framed languages like Catalan or Spanish.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The data: -sco verbs in Early and Classical Latin
  • 3.The theoretical framework
  • 4.A syntactic analysis of state and change of state verbs in Latin
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Abbreviations (author; work)
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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