Remarks on the Aspect of the Present Tense in Latin
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angličtina
Original language name
Remarks on the Aspect of the Present Tense in Latin
Original language description
For the grammatical aspect, the present tense in Latin does not clearly have any aspectual opposition in the sense of the imperfect and perfect tenses. However, if we consider aspect a universal characteristic of predication (cf. Vaníková 2019: 8), then even the predications with verbs in the present tense must have an aspectual value. But which constituents in such a predication add or change aspectual value? This paper shows that the present tense is imperfective, but that there are fea-tures that change this default value such as the situation type of the verb, especially its telicity, arguments, and prefixes. It is crucial to identify the possible combina-tions of these features and the meanings rendered by their various combinations. By analysing verbs with the prefix ex-, it reveals that the prefixed telic verbs gen-erally do not function as the actual present. In 54% of the cases, these were historic present tenses denoting the narrative past; in 33% of the cases, they denote itera-tivity; 5% of the instances are praesens pro futuro; 4% are actual present; and 2% are conative present.Aspect is a compositional category, and this paper attempts to demonstrate an approach which may be used in more detailed descriptions of the category of aspect.
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics
ISBN
978-3-11-072166-9
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Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
113-132
Publisher name
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Event location
Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Event date
May 30, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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