A Synchronic and Diachronic Systemic Functional 'Three-Dimensional' Approach to Tense and Aspect in the Writings of Caesar and Gregory of Tours. Ghent University
This project investigates the nature of the Latin verb stems, based on the analysis of a corpus consisting of Classical and Late Latin historiographical texts. It examines their basic value: an aspectual opposition (perfectivity-imperfectivity) or a difference in relative tense (anteriority-simultaneity). The framework is a Systemic-Functional model with three semantic dimensions: ideational (propositional content), textual ...