| Title: | La sostituzione del genitivo latino in documenti privati altomedievali: principi semantici alla base del mutamento linguistico |
| Author: | Cecilia Valentini |
| Publication: | Lucrările celui de-al șaselea Simpozion Internațional de Lingvistică, București, 29-30 mai 2015, Section Lingvistică romanică, p. 463-471 |
| Editors: | Maria Stanciu Istrate, Daniela Răuțu |
| Publisher: | Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | [The substitution of the Latin genitive in early medieval Italian charters: the relevance of semantic principles for language change] The article aims to examine the substitution of the Latin genitive through the preposition de as showed in early medieval charters from northern Italy (87 documents written in the 8th century and gathered in the Codice diplomatico longobardo). The preposition de in these texts is used more extensively than in the preceding stages of Latin but has not yet substituted the synthetic construction in every context. The substitution of the Latin genitive occurred gradually following semantic principles such as the degree of animacy of the nouns involved and the degree of prototypicality of the relationship within the possessive domain. In the Lombard charters only prototypical possessive relationships (e.g. kinship and ownership), which involve human participants, preserve a synthetical encoding of adnominal possession. In such nominal phrases the encoding means vary between inflected forms and dependent nouns lacking any case inflection, so that the construction results in a mere juxtaposition of the two nouns. Evidence of the latter can still be found in old Italian texts, crucially in the expression of kinship and ownership relations. |
| Key words: | late Latin, old Italian, early medieval charters, prototypical possession, animacy hierarchy |
| Language: | Italian |
| Links: |  pdf |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 0 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 60, 2017). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2017 | LR, LXVII (2), 127-254 | 2018 |
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| 6 | Maria Iliescu | La grammaticalisation de l’expression du déterminant d’appartenance en ancien français et en roumain | RRL, LI (2) | 2006 | pdf html |
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