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 and the arts
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
semantics
metafunctions
latin
Late Antiquity
Antiquity
Latin
Quantitative
Language and text analysis
Western Europe
Southern Europe
Linguistics
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).