New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, Volume 3: Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora

553 Pages·2010·2.464 MB·English

by  Philip Baldi, Pierluigi Cuzzolin

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax
Volume 3
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New Perspectives on
Historical Latin Syntax
Volume 3: Constituent Syntax:
Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora
Edited by
Philip Baldi
Pierluigi Cuzzolin
De Gruyter Mouton
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Acknowledgments
Since its conception in 1997, this project has been touched in many positive
ways by many people, organizations and institutions. Our first tip of the hat
goes to the US National Science Foundation (Grant #SBR-9816627), whose
directoratthetime,PaulChapin,sawthepotentialintheprojectandprovided
muchusefuladviceontheNSFprocess,aswellasonsomescientificdetails.
NSF funded the project in its initial stages, from 1999–2002. Our next ex-
pressionofgratitudegoestotheRockefellerFoundation,Ifevertherewasan
organization withclass, thisisit.TheFoundation funded athree-day confer-
ence over five days at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como,
in September of 2001. Incomparable attention to detail by the staff, blended
with breathtaking views of the Villa and its surroundings, are in the perma-
nentcollectivememoryoftheparticipants.Ourfinalthankstoanorganization
belongsmoreproperlytoanindividual.FirstastheDieboldFoundation,then
astheSalusMundiFoundation,underthedirectorshipofA.RichardDiebold,
thisorganization hasfunded NewPerspectives onHistorical LatinSyntax on
threedifferentoccasions,beginningin2002andrunninguntilthecompletion
ofthe project. Dr. Diebold, Professor Emeritus at the University ofArizona,
hasthus continued hisunparalleled support forClassical and Indo-European
linguistics withhisgenerous subsidies forthisproject.
Of the several institutions that have participated in one way or another,
three are prominent: first, Penn State University, specifically the College of
LiberalArtsandtheDepartmentofClassicsandAncientMediterraneanStud-
ies,hasprovidedthehomebasefortheprojectsincethebeginning. Fromthe
staff managing the budgets and other bureaucratic details (Trish Alexander,
Vicki Blazer, Rhonda Decker, Sandi Moyer, Rose Niman) to the faculty of
the department (especially Garrett Fagan, Stephen Wheeler, Dan Berman,
Markus Asper and Gonzalo Rubio) to the administration (Gary Knoppers,
Paul Harvey), there has always been a gratifying willingness on the part of
these individuals to share their expertise at all levels. Similar words of ap-
preciationgototheDepartmentofLinguisticsoftheUniversityofBergamo,
which hosted our first meeting in excellent style, and especially to our col-
leaguesGiulianoBerniniandProfessorAlbertoCastoldi, RettoreoftheUni-
versity, both of whom gave continuous and generous support to the project:
vi Acknowledgments
theydeservespecialthanks.Further,weacknowledgetheDepartmentofLin-
guistics of the University of Pavia (especially Paolo Ramat, chair, and Anna
GiacaloneRamat)fortheirsupportandfortheircollegiality,andforgivingus
access to the resources of the department. We also thank the Department of
Classics of the University of Bologna (especially Gualtiero Calboli, Sandra
Bertocchi and Mirka Maraldi) for hosting a mini-conference in the summer
of2003.
Individual thanks are owed to the following people, who all participated
in some organic way in this project over the years: first of all to our project
advisors (BrentVine,ChristianLehmannandBernardComrie)foraccepting
our invitation and for sharing their experience and wise counsel with us at
various stages of the project; to Barbara Bullock, Jacqueline Toribio (Univ.
of Texas); Richard Page (Penn State); Gary Miller (Univ. of Florida); Harm
Pinkster(Univ.ofAmsterdam);MichaelHillen(ThesaurusLinguaeLatinae,
Munich); the Mouton de Gruyter staff (especially Anke Beck, Birgit Sie-
vert,WolfgangKonwitschny,ChristophEyrich[typesetter]); Heather(Heidi)
HeidrichandNicholasKarl,oureditorial assistants; andourcopy-editor, Pe-
terT.Daniels.
Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
PhilipBaldiandPierluigiCuzzolin
Prolegomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AlessandraBertocchi, MirkaMaraldi, andAnnaOrlandini
Quantification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
JesúsdelaVilla
Numerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
PhilipBaldiandAndreaNuti
Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
SilviaPieroni
Deixisandanaphora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Subjectindex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Indexofclassical references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Detailed contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Listofabbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
PhilipBaldiandPierluigiCuzzolin
Prolegomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Background andmethodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. HistoricalsyntaxandLatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. TheFunctional-typological Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Thediachronic dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. Volume3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AlessandraBertocchi, MirkaMaraldi, andAnnaOrlandini
Quantification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1. Indefinitepronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.1. Thederivation ofindefinites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2. Indefinites andquantification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.2.1. Therelationbetween“existential quantifier” and
“presupposition ofexistence” . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.2.2. Thedistinction “specific/nonspecific” andthe
presupposition ofexistence . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.3. Mainfunctional typesofindefinites . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.3.1. Specificityandnonspecificity . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.3.2. Knowledgeofthespeaker . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.3.3. Negation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.3.4. Negativepolarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.3.5. Freechoice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2. Nonspecific/specific: quis/aliquis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1. Quis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1.1. Thecontextsofoccurrence ofquis . . . . . . . 31
2.2. Aliquis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.3. Interrogative clauses: ecquis, numquis . . . . . . . . . . . 36