PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS

Based on 128 proverbs and sayings attributed to the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, as listed in the Latinum in aeternum collection (Marević 2002), this paper explores the connection between the semantic categories of the quoted phrases and their syntactic structures and aims to prove that, despi...

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Main Authors: Ana Lehocki-Samardžić, Matija Zorić
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Published: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univeristy of Osijek 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://naklada.ffos.hr/casopisi/index.php/proverbium/article/view/1057
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description Based on 128 proverbs and sayings attributed to the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, as listed in the Latinum in aeternum collection (Marević 2002), this paper explores the connection between the semantic categories of the quoted phrases and their syntactic structures and aims to prove that, despite the possibility of learning Latin sayings formulaically without surface understanding of Latin grammar, their acceptance and reproduction by Croatian speakers are influenced not only by their semantics but also by their deep structural clarity. For this purpose, all the quoted phrases were subjected to an extensive search for their occurrence in the corpus of the Croatian Language Repository (HJR) of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics. The study tested the representation of various Latin surface structures in the HJR corpus, including accusative with infinitive (ACI), nominative with infinitive (NCI), ablative absolute (ABL.APS.), independent finite sentences in the indicative and subjunctive moods, various nominal and verbal collocations or syntagms and the so-called historical infinitives. The paper has established that phrases from Cornelius Tacitus and other Roman and Latin authors with an indisputable depth structure are accepted and present in the HJR corpus, while those with an unclear depth structure, such as the so-called historical infinitives, are completely absent.
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spelling doaj-art-216ed5e3ac2a4ba296cfdcb46467ea252025-08-20T02:58:10ZdeuFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univeristy of OsijekProverbium2806-75682025-07-0142110.29162/pv.42.1.1057PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUSAna Lehocki-SamardžićMatija ZorićBased on 128 proverbs and sayings attributed to the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, as listed in the Latinum in aeternum collection (Marević 2002), this paper explores the connection between the semantic categories of the quoted phrases and their syntactic structures and aims to prove that, despite the possibility of learning Latin sayings formulaically without surface understanding of Latin grammar, their acceptance and reproduction by Croatian speakers are influenced not only by their semantics but also by their deep structural clarity. For this purpose, all the quoted phrases were subjected to an extensive search for their occurrence in the corpus of the Croatian Language Repository (HJR) of the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics. The study tested the representation of various Latin surface structures in the HJR corpus, including accusative with infinitive (ACI), nominative with infinitive (NCI), ablative absolute (ABL.APS.), independent finite sentences in the indicative and subjunctive moods, various nominal and verbal collocations or syntagms and the so-called historical infinitives. The paper has established that phrases from Cornelius Tacitus and other Roman and Latin authors with an indisputable depth structure are accepted and present in the HJR corpus, while those with an unclear depth structure, such as the so-called historical infinitives, are completely absent. https://naklada.ffos.hr/casopisi/index.php/proverbium/article/view/1057Cornelius Tacitushistorical infinitivetype of phraseological unitdeep structure of phraseological unitsyntax of phraseological unit
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historical infinitive
type of phraseological unit
deep structure of phraseological unit
syntax of phraseological unit
title PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
title_full PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
title_fullStr PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
title_full_unstemmed PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
title_short PROVERBS IN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE WORKS OF CORNELIUS TACITUS
title_sort proverbs in the phraseological dictionary from the works of cornelius tacitus
topic Cornelius Tacitus
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type of phraseological unit
deep structure of phraseological unit
syntax of phraseological unit
url https://naklada.ffos.hr/casopisi/index.php/proverbium/article/view/1057
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