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13:46 Mar 9, 2012 |
Italian to English translations [PRO] Linguistics / Latin grammar | |||||||
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3 | topical complement |
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topical complement Explanation: 10.1. Topic Topic is coded through de with the ablative, as in titles of literary works (de bello civili ‘The Civil War’; de rerum natura, ‘On the Nature of Things’); an example is (165): (165) Cic. Verr. 2,1,72: de quo ne multa disseram tantum dico, … ‘in order not to discuss this matter at length, I will only say …’ http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/article2_Luraghi... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 39 mins (2012-03-09 14:25:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In possessive clauses the possessor-NP is represented as a topical complement in the adessive caseIn Finno-Ugric languages, such as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, the adessive case (from Latin adesse "to be present") is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "on". ..... http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Estonian clause patterns--from... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2012-03-09 17:14:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The problem with "object argument" is that it may be complemento oggetto (accusativo) while your text mentions the use of the preposition "de" + ablative, which is ideal for titles, such as De Rerum Natura, De Bello Gallico, focusing on the topic. 7. Prepositions regularly precede the words they govern. a. But limiting words often intervene between the Preposition and its case; as,— dē commūnī hominum memoriā, concerning the common memory of men; http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/bennett.html#sect201 However topic/topical can be confused with "luogo" and locative. I've noticed a (rare) use of core-topic or focus complement |
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