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HABEO QUID.../ HABEO QUOD...: variation libre ou originalité conditionnée?

Colette Bodelot

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This paper is a comparative analysis of 'habeo + indirect question' and 'habeo + relative clause in the subjunctive mood'. After a short description of both constructions, I first analyze clear-cut examples of each type. Then, unlike several studies that refrain from classifying formally ambiguous examples, I try, by way of various criteria based on statistical data, to classify such instances. A discussion of the constructions in individual authors from Plautus to Tacitus provides evidence that habeo quid and habeo quod are not exact equivalents from a distributional point of view. Though both constructions do overlap occasionally under the constraint of historical, rhythmical and stylistic factors, they basically take two different forms: quid / cui dicam non habeo, in the case of an indirect question, and (non) habeo quod / cui dicam, in the case of a relative clause. These configurational differences are relevant to the fundamental nature of the constructions involved. Consequently, the negative or non-negative use of habeo and the placing of the subordinate clause either before or after habeo are due to specific syntactic or semantico-pragmatic features of either grammatical device. From a diachronic perspective, the results obtained by this investigation may shed light on the construction habeo + infinitive, a forerunner of the periphrastic active future in the Romance languages, which is assumed to be originally related to habeo quod + subjunctive.

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hal-03581607 , version 1 (01-03-2022)

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Colette Bodelot. HABEO QUID.../ HABEO QUOD...: variation libre ou originalité conditionnée?. Bolkestein, A.M., Kroon, C.H.M., Pinkster, H. Remmelink, H.W., Risselada, R. (éds). Theory and description in Latin linguistics. Selected Papers from the 11th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Gieben, Amsterdam, pp. 25-40, 2002. ⟨hal-03581607⟩

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