Code
01N00517
Duration
01 January 2017 → 31 December 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
semantics
metafunctions
latin
Project description
This project investigates the nature of the Latin verb stems, based on the analysis of a corpus consisting of Classical and Late Latin historiographical texts. It examines their basic value: an aspectual opposition (perfectivity-imperfectivity) or a difference in relative tense (anteriority-simultaneity). The framework is a Systemic-Functional model with three semantic dimensions: ideational (propositional content), textual (foreground-background), and interpersonal (discourse mode).