Remarks on the Aspect of the Present Tense in Latin

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Remarks on the Aspect of the Present Tense in Latin

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Remarks on the Aspect of the Present Tense in Latin

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Recent Trends and Findings in Latin Linguistics

ISBN

978-3-11-072166-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

113-132

Název nakladatele

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Místo vydání

Berlin/Boston

Místo konání akce

Santiago de Compostella, Spain

Datum konání akce

30. 5. 2022

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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