Confluences and Particular Semantic-Syntactic Features in Latin (Non-)Stative Constructions

• Autores: Concepción Cabrillana Leal
• Localización: Eirene: studia graeca et latina, ISSN 0046-1628, Nº. 60, 2024, págs. 19-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyses the main characteristics of a (interrelated) series of (non-)stative verbs, in an investigation that moves from the lexical-semantic to the syntactic level. The first task is to establish and quantify the common and particular semantic notions that these verbs possess, and to determine the lexical domain(s) in which the most frequent and shared notions of the (non-)stative predicates analyzed are located. The consequences observed at the syntactic level are then set out, both in terms of the general lines of the complementation schemes of such verbs, and in terms of the linguistic facts that occur in the use of these predicates from a synchronic and also, to a certain extent, a diachronic point of view. The analysis shows that the features of similarity and notional variety are combined in various particular ways, and form a gallery of specific complementation schemes, ranging from an absolutely generalizing monovalent existential frame to more concrete structures which are clearly transitive.