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A Synchronic and Diachronic Systemic Functional 'Three-Dimensional' Approach to Tense and Aspect in the Writings of Caesar and Gregory of Tours.
Code
01N00517
Duration
01 January 2017 → 31 December 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • 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).