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Contextual Asyntagmatic Lexems in the Latin Language

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to those Latin lexemes that could make up a class of the so-called contextual asyntagmatic lexemes. Together with interjections, contextual asyntagmatic lexemes belong to the group of lexemes that play the function of an independent statement. They differ from interjections, however, by the fact that they are contextually dependent, i.e. they must be a part of larger textual units. The basic context in which contextual asyntagmatic lexemes appear is dialogue. They usually form answers to questions (e.g. Shall we go home? – Yes./No./ Yes, of course.) or rarely they are reactions to judgements (e.g. We shall get up early tomorrow. – Yes./Good./Agreed.). Now Latin lexemes, which as it seems play the function of contextual syntagmatic lexemes in some contexts, initially include the following: etiam, ita, admodum, sic, non, minime, certe, snae, vero, verum, and scilicet. The principal difficulty to decide which lexemes belong to a class of contextual asyntagmatic lexemes is that they are multifunctional from the grammatical point of view.

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