Le traitement de l’adverbe au-delà du livre XV des IG de Priscien

The aim of the article is to assess whether the rest of the IG by Priscian, and in particular the last two books dealing with constructio add anything new to the study of the adverb in book XV. Two points are investigated: generic adverbs and the difference between adverbs and conjunctions. First we show that the history of the notion of •genericity” in Greek grammar allows us to understand how original Priscian was on this topic; this leads us to reorganize the nominal category, and to articulate nouns and generic adverbs with the semantic-functional categories of interrogative/ indefinite/ relative/ correlative words. Second we try to establish that the difference between adverbs and conjunctions has been the subject of two seemingly antinomic interpretations, but the same example with quia, which Priscian himself defines first as an adverb and later as a conjunction, proves that the grammarian had in fact two possible analyses to offer

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