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.
Author(s): Chiara Fedriani
Series: Brill’s Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume 3
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 310
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 11
List of Figures and Tables
......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works......Page 18
1.1 Object of Investigation......Page 23
1.2 Theoretical Approach......Page 28
1.3 Data and Corpora......Page 31
1.4 Motivations, Aims and Outline of the Present Study......Page 34
Chapter 2 The Experiential Situation and Its Components
......Page 37
2.1 Semantic Roles......Page 38
2.2 The Experiential Situation and Its Components......Page 41
2.2.1 The Experiencer Role......Page 42
2.2.1.1 Inherent Properties......Page 46
2.2.1.2 Relational Properties......Page 47
2.2.2.1 Inherent Properties......Page 51
2.2.2.2 Relational Properties......Page 52
2.3 The Status of Experiencers and Stimuli within a General Classification of Semantic Roles
......Page 55
2.4 Generalization and Inversion in the Functional Domain of Experience
......Page 58
2.5 Short Characterization of the Experiencerhood Domain in Indo-European
......Page 62
2.5.1 Experiencer-Centered Constructions......Page 63
2.5.2 Stimulus-Centered Constructions......Page 65
2.5.4 Non-Centered Constructions......Page 69
2.5.5 Conclusions......Page 72
3.1 Introduction......Page 74
3.2.1 The Intransitive Construction: NOMEXP – VINTR
......Page 77
3.2.2 The Transitive Construction: NOMEXP – ACCSTIM......Page 87
3.2.3 The NOMEXP – DATSTIM Construction......Page 97
3.2.4 The NOMEXP – GENSTIM Construction......Page 99
3.2.5 The NOMEXP – PPSTIM Construction......Page 106
3.2.5.1 AB......Page 108
3.2.5.2 AD......Page 109
3.2.5.4 DE......Page 110
3.2.5.5 EX......Page 113
3.2.5.6 IN......Page 114
3.2.5.8 Stimuli as Prepositional Phrases: Summary......Page 116
3.3.1 The DATEXP – NOMSTIM Construction......Page 118
3.3.2 The ‘double dative’ Construction......Page 125
3.4 The Abstract Possession Construction in the History of Latin......Page 129
3.5 Summary......Page 136
4.1 Introduction......Page 141
4.2 A Non-centered Construction: General Outline......Page 143
4.2.1 Characterization of the Employment of the Accusative Case......Page 146
4.2.2 Characterization of the Employment of the Genitive Case......Page 150
4.2.3 The pudet-type Argument Structure Construction in Latin: A Quantitative Survey
......Page 152
4.3.1.1 Paradigm and Attested Forms......Page 157
4.3.1.2 The Expression of the Stimulus......Page 160
4.3.1.2.1 Stimuli as Neuter Pronouns......Page 161
4.3.1.2.2 Stimuli as Nouns......Page 163
4.3.1.2.3 Stimuli as Verbs......Page 164
4.3.2 Paenitet......Page 167
4.3.2.1 Paradigm and Attested Forms......Page 169
4.3.2.2.2 Stimuli as Nouns......Page 171
4.3.2.2.3 Stimuli as Verbs......Page 174
4.3.3.1 Paradigm and Attested Forms......Page 176
4.3.3.2 The Expression of the Stimulus......Page 186
4.3.4.1 Paradigm and Attested Forms......Page 188
4.3.4.2.1 Stimuli as Nouns......Page 190
4.3.5 Piget......Page 192
4.3.5.1 Paradigm and Attested Forms......Page 193
4.3.5.2.3 Stimuli as Verbs......Page 195
4.3.6.1 Veretur......Page 196
4.3.6.2 Fastidit, iuvat, delectat and fallit......Page 203
4.3.6.3 Decet......Page 204
4.3.6.4 Dolet......Page 205
4.3.6.5 Toward a Broader Subsystem of Inactive Syntax in Latin......Page 206
4.4 Summary......Page 209
Chapter 5 Experiential Constructions in Late Latin and Old Italian: A Corpus-based Investigation into Diachronic Syntax
......Page 212
5.1 Semantic and Cognitive Processes in Constructional Diachronic Change
......Page 213
5.2.1 The Reanalysis of the Reflexive Pronoun: Evidence from Late Latin Experiential Verbs
......Page 219
5.2.2 The pudet-type Construction in Late Latin: Where Has the Minority Pattern Gone?
......Page 220
5.2.3 Interim Summary. Frequency and Semanticity of Experiential Constructions in Late Latin
......Page 230
5.3 Experiential Constructions in Old Italian......Page 231
5.3.1 NOMEXP – ACCSTIM Experiential Constructions in Old Italian......Page 233
5.3.2 The DATEXP – NOMSTIM Experiential Construction in Old Italian......Page 238
5.3.3 The Development of Latin NOMEXP – DATSTIM and NOMEXP – GENSTIM Experiential Constructions in Old Italian
......Page 251
5.3.4 The Intransitive Pronominal NOMEXP – PPSTIM Experiential Construction in Old Italian
......Page 255
5.4 Summary......Page 265
6.1 The Characterization of Experiencers and Stimuli: Empirical and Theoretical Results
......Page 273
6.2 The Functional Domain of Experience in Classical Latin......Page 275
6.3 Main Trends in the Historical Development......Page 278
6.4 Typological Considerations......Page 280
References......Page 285
Index Locorum......Page 314
Index of Modern Authors......Page 323
Subject Index......Page 328
