The locative alternation with intransitive verbs in Latin
Mateu Fontanals, Jaume (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Catalana)
Gomez Vazquez, Diana (Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa)

Data:	2026
Resum:	The locative alternation with intransitive verbs, which is quite productive in English, is also shown to be attested in Latin. In the theme/figure subject variant, the location surfaces as an oblique complement: e. g. oculis micat acribus ignis (Verg. Aen. 12. 102) and Et resonet tota planctus in Aemilia (Mart. 6. 85. 6). In contrast, in the location/ground subject variant, the theme is typically expresssed via a nominal phrase in the ablative case (and less frequently in the genitive case): e. g. et crebris micat ignibus aether (Verg. Aen. 1. 90) and resonat magnis plangoribus aether (Verg. Aen. 4. 668). The two variants are shown to involve a different syntactico-semantic construal, with a different pragmatics as well. The meaning of the location subject variant is shown to go beyond the well-known “holistic effect” (i. e. its subject is “fully affected”): this variant entails theme and event abundance and so-called “dynamic texture”, whereby the events described by the verb happen simultaneously and repetitively throughout all parts of a space. Finally, we also provide a sketch of our syntactic approach to the event structure of some relevant verbs that enter into the intransitive locative alternation in Latin.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Argument structure alternation ; Event structure ; Intransitive verbs ; Latin ; Locative alternation
Publicat a:	Journal of Latin linguistics, Vol. 25, Num. 1 (08 2026) , p. 71-87, ISSN 2194-8747

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