General extenders in Latin
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Elisabetta Magni
Abstract
General extenders are a subset of pragmatic markers that includes items such as Eng. and stuff like that, and everything, or something. In many languages they are typically phrase- or clause-final expressions with a structural template consisting of a conjunction plus a generic nominal (or a proform), with an optional comparative or similative phrase. Like other pragmatic devices, general extenders cover a wide range of functions and meanings, which are highly contextdependent. These features have been deeply investigated in native English discourse, while research on their role at the textual level has been minimal. In addition, many studies quote et cetera as a typical example, but no attempt has been made so far to investigate this kind of expressions in Latin. The aim of this chapter is to collect the Latin expressions that can be employed as general extenders, and to discuss questions concerning the structures and their variation, their functions in the organization of the text, and their pragmaticalization.
Abstract
General extenders are a subset of pragmatic markers that includes items such as Eng. and stuff like that, and everything, or something. In many languages they are typically phrase- or clause-final expressions with a structural template consisting of a conjunction plus a generic nominal (or a proform), with an optional comparative or similative phrase. Like other pragmatic devices, general extenders cover a wide range of functions and meanings, which are highly contextdependent. These features have been deeply investigated in native English discourse, while research on their role at the textual level has been minimal. In addition, many studies quote et cetera as a typical example, but no attempt has been made so far to investigate this kind of expressions in Latin. The aim of this chapter is to collect the Latin expressions that can be employed as general extenders, and to discuss questions concerning the structures and their variation, their functions in the organization of the text, and their pragmaticalization.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
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Clause
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Constructions
- Linguistic theory in daily lexicographical practice: dealing with arguments and satellites in the entries of regnare and nectere in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1
- The expression of knowledge in Latin: cognosco, nosco, scio, nescio and ignoro 20
- Los verbos latinos timeo y metuo: sintaxis, semántica y pragmática 48
- Potest + passive infinitives: auxiliary or impersonal verb? 67
- Ruinam dare : les complexités d’une construction latine à verbe support 79
- On the use of the ablative of the gerund and the nominative of the present participle in Latin technical literature 96
- Praedicativum and subject complement: a question revisited in light of the Latin verb sto 116
- Der lateinische Dativ: neue Wege in Transitivität und funktionaler Semantik 134
- Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets 155
- Les complétives en quoniam : étude à partir du latin biblique 174
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Semantics
- Animacy in Latin: explaining some peripheral phenomena 199
- Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: Sapir’s typology and different perspectives on totality 219
- General extenders in Latin 241
- Les parcours sémantiques vers l’adversatif : une approche typologique des langues anciennes 259
- The diffraction of iam: contextual effects in interpretation 280
- Le système latin de la déixis et de l’endophore : l’évolution linguistique chez Sénèque 296
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Discourse
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Tense and discourse
- On the expression of relative time in Latin narrations 319
- Progression thématique et types de séquences chez quelques historiens romains 339
- Engaging the audience: an intersubjectivity approach to the historic present tense in Latin 351
- ‘I hereby present the use of the Latin first-person perfect indicative as a performative’ 374
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Politeness and identity
- Expressing happiness as a manifestation of positive politeness in Roman comedy 393
- Impoliteness in Plautus’ comedies 413
- How to assess politeness in response to impoliteness: some examples from Latin comedy 431
- Cicero vs. Mark Antony: identity construction and ingroup/outgroup formation in Philippics One and Three 448
- Ego sum Amphitruo: Selbstidentifikation in der römischen Komödie 464
- Index 479
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
-
Clause
-
Constructions
- Linguistic theory in daily lexicographical practice: dealing with arguments and satellites in the entries of regnare and nectere in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 1
- The expression of knowledge in Latin: cognosco, nosco, scio, nescio and ignoro 20
- Los verbos latinos timeo y metuo: sintaxis, semántica y pragmática 48
- Potest + passive infinitives: auxiliary or impersonal verb? 67
- Ruinam dare : les complexités d’une construction latine à verbe support 79
- On the use of the ablative of the gerund and the nominative of the present participle in Latin technical literature 96
- Praedicativum and subject complement: a question revisited in light of the Latin verb sto 116
- Der lateinische Dativ: neue Wege in Transitivität und funktionaler Semantik 134
- Between syntax and magic: some peculiarities of nominal syntax in Latin curse tablets 155
- Les complétives en quoniam : étude à partir du latin biblique 174
-
Semantics
- Animacy in Latin: explaining some peripheral phenomena 199
- Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: Sapir’s typology and different perspectives on totality 219
- General extenders in Latin 241
- Les parcours sémantiques vers l’adversatif : une approche typologique des langues anciennes 259
- The diffraction of iam: contextual effects in interpretation 280
- Le système latin de la déixis et de l’endophore : l’évolution linguistique chez Sénèque 296
-
Discourse
-
Tense and discourse
- On the expression of relative time in Latin narrations 319
- Progression thématique et types de séquences chez quelques historiens romains 339
- Engaging the audience: an intersubjectivity approach to the historic present tense in Latin 351
- ‘I hereby present the use of the Latin first-person perfect indicative as a performative’ 374
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Politeness and identity
- Expressing happiness as a manifestation of positive politeness in Roman comedy 393
- Impoliteness in Plautus’ comedies 413
- How to assess politeness in response to impoliteness: some examples from Latin comedy 431
- Cicero vs. Mark Antony: identity construction and ingroup/outgroup formation in Philippics One and Three 448
- Ego sum Amphitruo: Selbstidentifikation in der römischen Komödie 464
- Index 479
