title: On Direct Object in Latin Impersonal Passive Constructions
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metadata.value: Chernysheva, Vlada A.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:47:44Z
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metadata.value: 2019-01-17T10:47:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vlada A. Chernysheva. On Direct Object in Latin Impersonal Passive Constructions. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(2), 241–246.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15255
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metadata.value: This article deals with the Roman grammarians’ interpretation of impersonal passive constructions
  and verbal government. A direct object depending on impersonal passive verbs is unattested
  in Classical Latin, whereas it is possible in Early and Late Latin and is treated as a feature of
  colloquial language. I suppose that the passage concerning the passive verbs in Ars de nomine
  et verbo (GL 5. 372. 35–373. 20), written by the 5th-century A. D. grammarian Consentius, provides
  evidence for such a usage. The examples from Terence (per quem res geretur maxime),
  Cicero (rem agi), and Virgil (iam tempus agi res), the meaning of which remains unclear for
  Consentius, are discussed in this passage. Each of them contains a form of the noun res and
  passive-looking verb forms geretur and agi, which may have either passive or impersonal meaning.
  In the latter case the noun inevitably becomes a direct object. According to Classical Latin
  grammar rules, such an impersonal meaning is impossible, and, consequently, the forms of the
  noun res are subjects of the subordinate and infinitive clauses. The passage discussed in this paper
  should be included among other 5th-century Latin examples in which direct objects depend
  on impersonal passive verbs. Besides, the passage is remarkable from the standpoint of ascribing
  a colloquial feature to the standard classical texts which were read in Roman schools.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: impersonal passive
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: verbal government
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: direct object
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metadata.value: Late Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Consentius
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman grammarians
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On Direct Object in Latin Impersonal Passive Constructions
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metadata.value: Article
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