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Participio de presente que expresa anterioridad o posterioridad

Title in English Present participle expressing anteriority or posteriority
Authors

MIKULOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

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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