Comparison and Negation in Latin
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Comparison and Negation in Latin
Original language description
Comparison of adjectives (and adverbs) is a grammatical category that has thus far received scant attention in Latin linguistics. Latin grammars (with few exceptions, cf. Pinkster, 2005, 47; Kühner - Holzweissig, 1912, 565-6; Neue - Wagener, 1891, 245-6) treat comparison as a category applicable to all adjectives and omit entirely the question of which adjectives can be compared and which cannot for semantic reasons. Nevertheless, data from modern languages show that the category of comparison of adjectives (and adverbs) is actually highly limited. Based on an extensive excerption of Latin texts (the employed corpus comprises more than 10,000 items marked as adjectives in the Oxford Latin Dictionary and all their occurrences throughout the database Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina III), a rough estimate gives that comparative or superlative forms (synthetic and/or periphrastic) are attested in Latin in approximately 14% of adjectives, while both degrees are found in about 7% of adjectives. According to Pinkster and Kühner - Holzweissig, one of the semantic classes where comparison is excluded for semantic reasons is that of "adjectives with negative meaning". The Oxford Latin Dictionary contains 566 adjectives with the negative prefix in-. Of these 26.1% are attested to be gradable, which means that the proportion of attested gradable negative adjectives, contrary to the claims of the grammars, is actually higher than the proportion of attested gradable Latin adjectives in general. That being the case, this study aims to give a more convincing account of the gradability of negative adjectives than that afforded by the brief statements on this topic in Kühner - Holzweissig and Pinkster.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-11247S" target="_blank" >GA17-11247S: Comparison of adjectives in Latin</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Glotta - Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache
ISSN
0017-1298
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
96
Issue of the periodical within the volume
jaro
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
35
Pages from-to
178-212
UT code for WoS article
000527785500010
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