“Intensive” verbal prefixes in Archaic Latin Davide Bertocci University of Padua, Italy This is a section of The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9) by Rosanna Benacchio, Alessio Muro, Svetlana Slavkova Firenze University Press Firenze 2017 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-698-9.05

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The goal of this paper is to give a brief outline of the synchronic conditions which trigger the emergence of aspectual values in Latin verbal prefixes. In particular, I will show that such a possibility is not the result of bare semantic effects, lexicalization of idioms or compounding strategies; rather, aspectual preverbation crucially has to do with syntactic factors, namely the argument structure of the verb, the prepositional character of the prefixes, and the interactions between those components.

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