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agri cultura Agriculture 2 nd c. BC 16.026 Varro Res rusticae Agriculture 2 nd-1 st c. BC 35.692 Celsus De medicina Medicine 1 st c. AD 104.017 Columella Res rustica Agriculture 1 st c. AD 109.177 Chiron Mulomedicina Chironis Veterinary medicine 4 th c. AD 65.580 Ps. Apuleius Herbarium Herbarium 4 th c. AD 18.725 Pelagonius Ars veterinaria Veterinary medicine 4 th-5 th c. AD 22.541 Palladius Opus agriculturae Agriculture 5 th c. AD 42.159 Vegetius Digesta artis mulomedicinae Veterinary medicine 5 th c. AD 48.409 Anthimus De obseruatione ciborum epistula ad Theodericum regem Francorum Cookery 6 th c. AD

In Latin, the present participle and the gerund frequently function as the predicate of an adjunct clause. Such clauses are syntactically dependent on a main clause, with which they form a bi-clausal construction. Under specific semantic and pragmatic circumstances, some of these constructions are interpreted based on a pragmatic inference: the main verb, which corresponds to a verb of existence, position, or movement, is deprived of its lexical meaning and acquires a grammatical function, viz. that of presenting the non-finite state of affairs as being in the middle of its realization. The repeated use and propagation of thusly interpreted constructions gave rise to a new construction, the progressive construction. I argue that the emergence of this construction corresponds to a constructionalization process, and that although this process has not been completed within Latin, many instances of the pattern [verb of existence/position/movement + present participle/gerund] instantiate a construction in its own right, viz. different from the bi-clausal construction that gave rise to it.

Dans cet article est proposée une nouvelle analyse de l’association d’un verbe de perception, d’un SN et d’un participe présent : le verbe de perception est moins un verbe lexicalement plein qu’un marqueur présentatif introduisant le procès verbal dénoté par le participe présent en tant que nouvelle unité informationnelle ; le participe présent étant alors le verbe principal aux points de vue pragmatique, sémantique et syntaxique. Sur la base d’un examen qualitatif de données empiriques, il est montré comment cette association se « constructionnalise » et évolue entre le latin tardif et l’ancien français sans pourtant achever son processus de constructionnalisation.

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