Dormivit et resurgit. A language-ecology approach to the diachrony of the Latin ingressive perfect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22021334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Aerts (0000-0003-1852-9255, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 21-50 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2194-8739 • E-ISSN: 2194-8747 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/joll-2024-2006 |
| OpenAlex | W4406284836 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
After the merger of the perfect and aorist stems, the resulting perfectum stem in Latin kept its less central functions such as resultativity and ingressivity as marked aspectual meanings in its semantic potential. Occurring first in literary and especially poetic text, as a dormant, archaic function, its use was revived in the 4th century due to intensifying exchanges with New Testament Greek, where the ingressive aorist was still more productive. The current paper examines, on the basis of a representative sample selected from all relevant time periods and various text types, perfectum stem forms of a substantial number of stative verbs in a close-reading process, in order to ascertain more accurately the dynamics of the diachrony of Latin ingressivity. The occurrence rate of this form-function pairing is compared to significant alternations of a number of contextual factors, such as discourse type, mood, predicate fronting and the dynamics in the system of lexical ingressivity
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| Highly cited | No |