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| Author(s): |
Alex Mazzanti Junior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-04-05 |
| Examining board members: |
José Marcos Mariani de Macedo;
Marcelo Vieira Fernandes;
José Eduardo dos Santos Lohner;
Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo
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| Advisor: | José Marcos Mariani de Macedo |
| Abstract | |
Latin subjunctive complement clauses, especially in Plautus Archaic Latin, can be introduced by a conjunction or present a bare subjunctive, without any introductory particle (fac ut uenias type and fac uenias type). This thesis aimed at explaining why and in which contexts this alternation happens. To do that, all subjunctive complement clauses in Plautus were collected, based on an extensive theoretical discussion about their structure, nature and function. They were also put together in a database, annotated according to several criteria, and studied by means of an approach that conciliates not only linguistic and philological methods, but also quantitative methods. From 1441 tokens, 1150 belong to six semantic categories that allow the absence of the conjunction and that were used in the analyses. It is 28.17% (324/1150) of the tokens that allow juxtaposition. Register and social variation (characters sex, type and social rank), as well as the relative position of the main and subordinate verbs, do not alter the distributions of tokens without a conjunction and those with it. On the other hand, the distance between main and subordinate verbs in number of words was extremely significant: the longer the distances, the higher the probability that the conjunction is used; the shorter the distances, the higher the probability that the conjunction is absent. Likewise, it was also significant that three groups of main verbs, Imperatives, Desiderative verbs, and Evaluative expressions of non-substantive nature, amount to 79% of all juxtaposed subjunctives in Plautus. The verbs of those groups present semantic and pragmatic characteristics that make them similar to modal verbs, which stablish a close cognitive relation with their subordinate subjunctives, which is closer than, for instance, when the verb facio is in its causative use. Therefore, we may come to the conclusion that the subjunctive complementation without conjunction in Plautus presents formal characteristics of proximity (the absence of the conjunction and the shorter distances between both verbs) which iconically reflect the cognitive and functional proximity between both verbs of the construction (quasi-modal semantic integration and functional specialization) (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/05648-5 - Presence and absence of subordinator in subjunctive complement clauses in Plautus |
| Grantee: | Alex Mazzanti Júnior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |