Proceso de activización de misereo(r), contemplo(r) y palpo(r): estudio diacrónico.

Toro Varela, Francisca

The article focuses on the possible relationship between the syntactic functions of experiential deponent verbs. The latter diachronically undergo a reform process and some change in their transitivity continuum. This research aims to determine how syntactic construction's transitivity influences the reform process of the verbs misereor, contemplor, and palpor. Through a corpus work of Latin texts, the casual encoding of the semantic roles of Experiencer and Stimulus was identified, both from reformed deponents and deponentia tantum in Preclassical and Classical Latin. In conclusion, the reformed deponents tend to diachronically become more transitive since a new restriction for the intransitive structures arises in Classical Latin: they cannot appear with such verbs' active formations. This corroborates an instability period in Early Latin, which provides the path to establish the reform in Late Latin.

VERBS; REFORMS; CORPORA; CONSTRUCTION; SEMANTIC memory

Literatura y Lingüística, 2020, Issue 42, p411

0716-5811

Academic Journal

10.29344/0717621X.42.2602