THE NUMBER OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY IN THE LATIN SUBSTANTIVE.Author:
PEREZ ALONSO MARCOS ANTONIO.
Year:
2006.
University:
OVIEDO [
www.uniovi.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGIA CLASICA Y ROMANICA.
Summary: The grammatical category in the number of substantive Latino (abstract) from a diachronic perspective grammatical category in the number born in a phase of Indo-European scholars who called EI II or flexional. Morfológicamente category arises by adding suffixes in ways that previously were prenuméricas and thereafter become singular as opposed to new forms sufijazas which served to indicate plurality. The Latin inherits this category of Indo-European and presents, in principle, only on the substantive, as their presence in the verb and adjective appears to be a mere facts match. The traditional grammar, cutting historical notes as members of the singular category, which would indicate "unity" and the plural, which would mean "plurality". Their task is to collect those examples where this does not seem to be the case and, at times, try an explanation of logical order or psychological. Hence born a range of uses "abnormal" in the singular and plural collective singular, plural poetic, and so on. The structural linguistics, for its part, was able to explain these anomalies alleged by the unmarked singular, it being the plural term as positive or characterized. However, some scholar treatment to see that the plural of the term might not be marked by the opposition but the unmarked. Our thesis seeks to demonstrate, from the perspective of structuralism also functional, which is the plural of the term marked by the opposition and introduces new theories as pragmatic explanation for certain uses "abnormal" singular and, above all, plural. The pragmatic complements efficiently the linguistic structural explanations.
