Upcoming events
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Fri17Apr202614uLokaal 3.30 - Camelot, Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren
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Mon20Apr20263:00 pmRoom 3.30 (Camelot), BlandijnShow content
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.
Past events
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Wed28Feb20244:00 pmCamelot 3.30
Monograph celebration
Show contentLast year, several ΔiaLing members published a monograph:
- Jóhanna Barðdal, Oblique subjects in Germanic: their status, history and reconstruction
- Nelson Goering, Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
- Mihaela Ilioaia, The MIHI EST construction: An instance of non-canonical subject marking in Romanian
We would like to give them the opportunity to present their monographs and we will toast with them on this success. This presentation and celebration will take place on the 28th of February, starting at 4 pm, in room 3.30 (Camelot) of the Blandijn. You are all very welcome to join!