Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT: After analysing the occurrences of the verbs adsignificare (loan translation of the Greek prossēmaínein) and consignificare (loan translation of sussēmaínein) in Varro’s and Priscien’s works, we will focus our attention on the structure of the systems of partes orationis formulated by these two authors. Different parameters are used: vericonditional (subject and predicate of a minimal assertive proposition), semantic (semantic / asemantic constituents), declarative (independent / consignificant parts). Each parameter is recalled by metaphors (ship, quadriga, primary and secondary organs of the human body) which oppose the logical approach to the grammatical one. Varro proposes a simplification of the taxonomic criteria, by retaining only time and case, the basic properties in the philosophy of language; Priscian, who superimposes many parameters, conceives heterogeneous taxonomies, which the Medieval commentators will
Source: Histoire Épistémologie Langage
Authors: Alessandro Garcea, Valeria Lomanto
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016747056