Interférences fonctionnelles entre relatives, complétives et circonstancielles
Résumé
The aim of this paper is to analyze whether, besides the basic functions traditionally ascribed to the three fundamental types of subordinate clauses in Latin, each of these subclasses cannot occasionally present functions characteristic of both other classes. Without any pretension to exhaustiveness, we will show by a sample of examples, gleaned from ancient, classical and Silver-Latin, that the subordinate clauses introduced by synchronically non-ambiguous forms of relative pronouns or circumstantial conjunctions can be functionally polyvalent, whereas clear-cut substantive clauses seem to be regularly confined to one specific functional domain. Various syntactic and semantic factors, considered both from a diachronic and synchronic perspective, prove operative to explain such differences of functional behavior.
Domaines
Linguistique
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