The Perfect and Semantics of Perfectivity in Latin
The Perfect and Semantics of Perfectivity in Latin
Author(s): Bohdan CHERNYUKHSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: Latin language; perfectivity; Perfect tense; actionality; semantics;
Summary/Abstract: From a semantic point of view, perfectivity is realized in Latin as a complex of meanings combined around the notion of limit, but different in their nature. The particular meanings of limitativity, inceptivity, completivity and punctuality are distinguished. The realization of each of them is closely related to actional semantics of predicates as well as to the context. The analysis of correlation between the particular meaning of perfectivity and actionality (resp. context) in Latin is the question under research in this article.
Journal: Meridian critic
- Issue Year: XXVIII/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 245-251
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
