title: Latin Impersonal Passive and the Category of Pluractionality
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Chernysheva, Vlada A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:27:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:27:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Chernysheva V. A. Latin Impersonal Passive and the Category of Pluractionality. Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (2), 285–290. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.208
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39156
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article aims to put Latin impersonal passive into the context of covert categories, specifically
  pluractionality. I try to reanalyse six passages from the Roman grammatical texts, mostly
  compiled in Heinrich Keil’s Grammatici Latini, in which the meaning of Latin impersonal
  passives is considered. There are two groups of evidence. The first one (passages from Diomedes,
  Priscian, and frg. Bobiense de verbo) presents the impersonal passive as a linguistic
  strategy that shifts focus from an agent to a situation, while the second one (Diomedes and
  two excerpts of Servius’ commentaries on Virgil) concentrates upon the number of agents. In
  the last case, a verbal action is considered to be a collective one involving many people, and
  therefore, in my opinion, falls into the category of pluractionality. Being a diverse phenomenon,
  the term pluractionality includes participant plurality, which is realised either in a subject
  or in an object depending on whether the verb is intransitive or transitive. Intransitivity of
  the Latin impersonal passive forms, as it seems, may imply agent plurality rather than subject
  plurality, since impersonal passive constructions are subjectless. Furthermore, in my opinion,
  the evidence provided by Latin grammarians demonstrates a contraposition of the 1st person
  singular, 1st person plural and 3rd person singular passive forms.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This work has been supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant, project No. 22–28–00531
  “Grammar of covert categories in Latin and Ancient Greek”.
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 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pluractionality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agent plurality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subject plurality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: covert category
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: impersonal passive
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman grammarians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Latin Impersonal Passive and the Category of Pluractionality
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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