Existe-t-il des « noms nus » en latin ?

Abstract

Since in Latin all noun phrases lack articles and therefore can be called “bare nominals”, my aim is to investigate whether Latin displays the same semantic properties as the ones appearing in the opposition between “bare noun phrases” and noun phrases with an article and in French or English. My field of investigation is limited to two copular sentence types, (1) predicational sentences like hic est danista which correspond either to Fr. il est prêteur or il est un/le prêteur and (2) double dative construction. Both semantic criteria and syntactic tests are used to uncover relevant distinctions.

Keywords

• noun phrase
• article
• double dative
• copular sentences