Predicaciones secundariaspanorama de investigación y vías de análisis para la lengua latina

Abstract

Constituents generically called Secondary predicates or Predicativa have raised an increasing interest in recent years both in general linguistics as in the field of Latin linguistics. Although some progress has been made, the issue continues to pose questions and problems of a different nature. This paper aims at (i) to present briefly the main problems which arise in dealing with the study of the secondary predicates in previous research from different linguistic approaches and, in the light of that scenario, (ii) to propose some ways of analysis which can be useful in the description and characterization of such predicates, basically in the Latin language. Aspects such as the analysis of the formal type that code the Praedicativum and its implications, the pragmatic relevance of this function and the ordering of the constuents involved in the contexts in which it appears or the application of different test of disambiguation reveal as criteria that can shed light on a so controversial function.