New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, Volume 2: Constituent Syntax: Adverbial Phrases, Adverbs, Mood, Tense

577 Pages·2010·1.95 MB·English

by  Philip Baldi

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax
Volume 2
Trends in Linguistics
Studies and Monographs 180.2
Editor
Volker Gast
Advisory Editors
Walter Bisang
Hans Henrich Hock
Matthias Schlesewsky
Founding Editor
Werner Winter
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New Perspectives on
Historical Latin Syntax
Volume 2: Constituent Syntax:
Adverbial Phrases, Adverbs, Mood, Tense
Edited by
Philip Baldi
Pierluigi Cuzzolin
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 978-3-11-020563-3
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Acknowledgments
Since its conception in 1997, this project has been touched in many positive
ways by many people, organizations and institutions. Our first tip of the hat
goes to the USNational Science Foundation (Grant #SBR-9816627), whose
director at the time, Paul Chapin, saw the potential in the project and pro-
vided much useful advice on the NSF process, as well as on some scientific
details. NSF funded the project in its initial stages, from 1999–2002. Our
nextexpressionofgratitude goestotheRockefellerFoundation, Ifeverthere
was an organization with class, this is it. The Foundation funded a three-
day conference over five days at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, on
Lake Como, in September of 2001. Incomparable attention to detail by the
staff, blended with breathtaking views of the Villa and its surroundings, are
in the permanent collective memory of the participants. Our final thanks to
anorganization belongs more properly to anindividual. Firstasthe Diebold
Foundation,thenastheSalusMundiFoundation,underthedirectorshipofA.
Richard Diebold, this organization has funded New Perspectives on Histori-
calLatinSyntaxonthreedifferent occasions, beginning in2002andrunning
until the completion of the project. Dr. Diebold, Professor Emeritus at the
UniversityofArizona,hasthuscontinuedhisunparalleledsupportforClassi-
calandIndo-Europeanlinguisticswithhisgeneroussubsidiesforthisproject.
Of the several institutions that have participated in one way or another,
three are prominent: first, Penn State University, specifically the College of
LiberalArtsandtheDepartmentofClassicsandAncientMediterraneanStud-
ies, has provided the home base for the project since the beginning. From
the staff managing the budgets and other bureaucratic details (Trish Alexan-
der, Vicki Blazer, Rhonda Decker, Sandi Moyer, RoseNiman) to thefaculty
of the department (especially Garrett Fagan, Stephen Wheeler, Paul Harvey,
DanBerman,MarkusAsperandGonzaloRubio)totheadministration (Gary
Knoppers),therehasalwaysbeenagratifyingwillingnessonthepartofthese
individuals to share their expertise at all levels. Similar words of apprecia-
tiongototheDepartmentofLinguisticsoftheUniversityofBergamo,which
hosted our first meeting in excellent style, and especially to our colleagues
Giuliano Bernini and Professor Alberto Castoldi, Rettore of the University,
both of whom gave continuous and generous support to the project: they
vi Acknowledgments
deserve special thanks. Further, we acknowledge the Department of Lin-
guistics of the University of Pavia (especially Paolo Ramat, chair, and Anna
GiacaloneRamat)fortheirsupportandfortheircollegiality,andforgivingus
access to the resources of the department. We also thank the Department of
Classics of the University of Bologna (especially Gualtiero Calboli, Sandra
Bertocchi and Mirka Maraldi) for hosting a mini-conference in the summer
of2003.
Individual thanks are owed to the following people, who all participated
in some organic way in this project over the years: first of all to our project
advisors (Brent Vine, Christian Lehmann and Bernard Comrie) for accept-
ing our invitation and for sharing their experience and wise counsel with us
at various stages of the project; to Barbara Bullock, Jacqueline Toribio and
Richard Page (Penn State); Gary Miller (Univ. of Florida); Harm Pinkster
(Univ. of Amsterdam); Michael Hillen (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Mu-
nich); theMoutondeGruyterstaff(especially AnkeBeck,BirgitSievertand
ChristophEyrich[typesetter]);Heather(Heidi)HeidrichandAmandaDalola,
oureditorial assistants; andourcopy-editor, PeterT.Daniels.
Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
PhilipBaldiandPierluigiCuzzolin
Prolegomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SilviaLuraghi
AdverbialPhrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
DavideRicca
Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
ElisabettaMagni
MoodandModality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
GerdV.M.Haverling
Actionality, tense,andviewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Subjectindex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Indexofclassical references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Detailed contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
PhilipBaldiandPierluigiCuzzolin
Prolegomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Background andmethodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. HistoricalsyntaxandLatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Thefunctional-typological approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Thediachronic dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. Volume2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SilviaLuraghi
AdverbialPhrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1. Formalandsyntactic aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2. Semanticrolesofadverbials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3. Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1. Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2. Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.3. Source/Origin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.4. Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.5. Typological considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.6. Diachronic considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5. Causalroles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.1. Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.1.1. Prototypical Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.1.2. Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5.2. Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.2.1. Prototypical Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5.2.2. Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.2.3. Intermediary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57