Personal versus impersonal passive in Latin infinitival clauses: Some diachronic considerations
This paper deals with the historical origins of the Classical Latin alternation between the personal passive NcI and the impersonal passive + AcI constructions. Starting from the observation by Maraldi (1983) that this alternation is not found prior to Cicero in the first century BC, the claim is th...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/3751 |