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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kenny, Neil

Titel

Disinterring and Reinterring the Dead: Tense in French Grammars, Du Vair, and Pasquier (c. 1550–1610)

Ist Teil von

• Romanic review, 2012-01, Vol.103 (1-2), p.209-231

Ort / Verlag

Durham: Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• First a historical and linguistic framework for studying the question is sketched; three case studies then follow. The figurai replacement of one tense by another, whether for purposes of evidential enárgeia (vividness) or enérgeia (expressive vigor) or copia (abundance), was discussed as one species of the umbrella figure of construction called enallagé or heterosis (substitution of one part of speech for another) by texts that were hugely influential in France and elsewhere - Erasmus's rhetoric manual De copia (1512) and Thomas Linacre's advanced grammar De emendata structura latini sermonis (1524)8 - while a grammatical work even more influential than Linacre's, Lorenzo Valla's Elegantiae (first version 1441), also discussed tensesubstitution, without giving it a rhetorical label ("tempus [. . .] pro tempore," one tense for another).9 So there was a spectrum in tense-use, ranging from fundamental reflexes drummed in through early education to expressive variations that were more self-conscious on the whole.