This paper has a twofold purpose: 1) to point out that participles cannot be considered as an autonomous word class, but rather constitute a non-prototypical category, located between adjectives and verbs; 2) to show how the various functions of participles can be classified by taking into consideration their dual nature. Particular emphasis is laid on two less studied usages of so-called conjunct participles that can be defined as appositive and cosubordinative. In the paper the semantic-pragmatic features of these two usages are first defined, and then their syntactic correlates are identified.
Pompei, A. (2006). Participles as a non-prototypical word class. In Words Classes and Related Topics in Ancient Greek. Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain (BCILL)117 (pp.361-388). Louvain-la-Neuve : Peeters.
Participles as a non-prototypical word class
POMPEI, Anna
2006-01-01
Abstract
This paper has a twofold purpose: 1) to point out that participles cannot be considered as an autonomous word class, but rather constitute a non-prototypical category, located between adjectives and verbs; 2) to show how the various functions of participles can be classified by taking into consideration their dual nature. Particular emphasis is laid on two less studied usages of so-called conjunct participles that can be defined as appositive and cosubordinative. In the paper the semantic-pragmatic features of these two usages are first defined, and then their syntactic correlates are identified.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
