The structure of verbal predication in Republican normative texts: syntax and semantics in the leges and the senatus consulta

• Grant number: 21/05390-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Isabella Tardin Cardoso
• Grantee: Eduardo Henrik Aubert
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims at studying the legal statutes of the late Roman Republic (2nd and 1st centuries). More specifically, the research will focus on the structure of the verbal nucleus and its predication. The mapping of the verbal nucleus and of the predication it controls shall be pursued according to both syntactic and semantic categories, according to the hypothesis that the multiple formal structures are associated with a complex semantic network that reveal legal statutes as complex texts, containing propositions of different illocutionary force.