Comparison and Negation in Latin

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Comparison and Negation in Latin

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 &quot;adjectives with negative meaning&quot;. 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Comparison and Negation in Latin

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 &quot;adjectives with negative meaning&quot;. 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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-11247S" target="_blank" >GA17-11247S: Stupňování adjektiv v latině</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Glotta - Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache

ISSN

0017-1298

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

96

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

jaro

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

35

Strana od-do

178-212

Kód UT WoS článku

000527785500010

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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