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T. VILJAMAA, Infinitive of narration in Livy. A study in narrative technique (Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B, t. 162). Turku, 1983. 103 p

T. VILJAMAA, Infinitive of narration in Livy. A study in narrative technique (Annales... 428 formally, debeo has a syntax like that of volo and other personal verbs that can take an infinitive, oportet like that of other impersonals, and so on. In describing their meanings one has, at one level, to ignore this and establish a system of contrasts in which, as Dr. Bolkestein argues, oportet and debeo have an identical place. But in the language as a whole it is not a self-contained system: each element in it has its own individual relations to other elements outside it. If debeo is, in effect, an underlying impersonal its opposition to volo (assuming that volo has a personal subject) is made more complex than it should be. If, conversely, oportet is made personal either the other impersonals must be treated likewise or that set of oppositions is obscured. Dr. Bolkestein would, of course, retort that, if oportet and debeo are not treated similarly, their relationship is in turn obscured. The only answer, perhaps, is that oppositions of meaning, such as she is dealing with here, are purely paradigmatic and the attempt to represent them by syntagmatic devices, such as deep structures or semantic frames, is a mistake. University of CAMBRIDGE P. H. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

T. VILJAMAA, Infinitive of narration in Livy. A study in narrative technique (Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Ser. B, t. 162). Turku, 1983. 103 p

Mnemosyne , Volume 41 (3-4): 428 – Jan 1, 1988

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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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428 formally, debeo has a syntax like that of volo and other personal verbs that can take an infinitive, oportet like that of other impersonals, and so on. In describing their meanings one has, at one level, to ignore this and establish a system of contrasts in which, as Dr. Bolkestein argues, oportet and debeo have an identical place. But in the language as a whole it is not a self-contained system: each element in it has its own individual relations to other elements outside it. If debeo is, in effect, an underlying impersonal its opposition to volo (assuming that volo has a personal subject) is made more complex than it should be. If, conversely, oportet is made personal either the other impersonals must be treated likewise or that set of oppositions is obscured. Dr. Bolkestein would, of course, retort that, if oportet and debeo are not treated similarly, their relationship is in turn obscured. The only answer, perhaps, is that oppositions of meaning, such as she is dealing with here, are purely paradigmatic and the attempt to represent them by syntagmatic devices, such as deep structures or semantic frames, is a mistake. University of CAMBRIDGE P. H.

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