title: Greek Perfects in Roman Epistolography
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kazanskaya, Maria N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T10:18:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T10:18:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Maria N.Kazanskaya. Greek Perfects in Roman Epistolography. Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (1), 96–106
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.108
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19325
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The perfect tense in Greek which is used to denote a state of affairs in the present as resulting
  from a past action does not find an exact equivalent in the system of Latin tenses: when faced
  with the need to express this idea a Latin speaker could either focus on the expression of the
  state by using the present tense (whereby the connection with the past was not expressed and
  would only be inferred), or use the perfect, in which case the effect of the past action on the
  present was not directly expressed and could only be deduced (the so-called resultative perfect). The article analyses Latin speakers’ attitude to this difference between Greek and Latin
  verbal systems, in particular, on the basis of the evidence collected from Roman epistolography when the letter-writer felt that the idea he wished to express could most aptly be rendered
  by a Greek perfect and switched to the Greek solely for that perfect form. The corpus of texts
  used for this study included the letters of Cicero to Atticus and his Epistulae ad Familiares, the
  Letters of Pliny the Younger, Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius, excerpts of Augustus’ letters preserved
  by Suetonius, and M.Cornelius Fronto’s correspondence with Marcus Aurelius.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This study was conducted as part of the project “Expression of Perfectivity in Ancient IndoEuropean Languages and the Issues of proto-language Reconstruction” funded by the Russian Foundation
  for Basic Research (grant N 17–04–00228–ОГН).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek perfect tense
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin perfect tense
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman epistolography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek and Latin bilingualism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Greek Perfects in Roman Epistolography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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