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  • Mon
    20
    Apr
    2026
    3:00 pmRoom 3.30 (Camelot), Blandijn

    The presentation explores the syntactic development of the ablative gerund in Late Latin. Adopting a functional-typological perspective, it investigates the construction’s degree of nominality and sententiality. The analysis is based on a corpus of 12 texts dating from the 3rd to the 6th century AD and focuses on two main issues: the relationship between prepositional and non-prepositional ablative gerunds in Late Latin, and the level of internal syntactic complexity of the non-prepositional ablative gerunds. The comparison between prepositional and non-prepositional ablative gerunds offers evidence for a low degree of nominality of the ablative gerund in Late Latin. At the same time, the analysis of internal syntactic complexity shows a high level of sententiality. Although the ongoing development is evident, the presence of prepositional ablative gerunds, still displaying a noun-like behavior, indicates that the syntactic development is still in progress and not yet concluded.

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  • Thu
    18
    Oct
    2018

    Get to know your colleagues: Isabelle de Meyer + Leonid Kulikov: "Greek χρόνος, its origin and cognates: An old etymological puzzle in Indo-European perspective”

    1:00 pmLeslokaal 1.1 (Rozier 44, 1e verdieping)

    PhD student Isabelle de Meyer will introduce herself and her PhD project to the members of DiaLing. The title of her FWO-project is "Recherches de sémantique et d'étymologie sur gr. ἀραρίσκω « adapter » et les mots apparentés."

    Dr. Leonid Kulikov will give a talk on “Greek χρόνος, its origin and cognates: An old etymological puzzle in Indo-European perspective." You can find the abstract for his lecture here.

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