THE EXPRESSION OF INSTRUMENT IN ARCHAIC LATIN BETWEEN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND MORPHOLOGICAL NATURALNESS
Keywords:
syncretism, Latin, morphological naturalness, prototype theory, metaphors, structural semanticsAbstract
This paper aims at discussing some of the issues addressed during a series of lectures held in May 2015 at the Department of Italian Studies at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac. In particular, the procedures of application of the methodological framework of the so-called “natural morphology” and the theory of linguistic prototypes will be applied diachronically to linguistic data. The purpose of the contribution is to analyse the process of syncretism from Indo-European to archaic Latin and the formal opposition between the use of simple case and prepositional phrase in the expression of the semantic role of the instrument.
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