Publication details
Participio de presente que expresa anterioridad o posterioridad
| Title in English | Present participle expressing anteriority or posteriority |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | present parciple; aoristic participle; States of Affairs; Late Latin; ablative of gerund; Latin; anteriority; posteriority |
| Description | This contribution is devoted to the investigation of factors that cause some predicative present participles to have interpretation of anteriority and posteriority. Two Late Latin texts (Liber historiae Francorum and Chronica Muzarabica) written in the 8th century are analyzed. First I focus on States of Affairs of present participle and main predicate. Most of the so called aoristic participles are telic, but it is not a general rule. Other important factors are position of the participle with respect to the main predicate, wider and narrower context. There are some cases of "aoristic" ablative of gerund in the Mozarabic Chronicle. Primordial value of the present predicative participles in the analyzed texts is to express relation to subject of the clause. The interpretation of anteriority, simultaneity or posteriority is due to various factors. |
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