Sounds, letters, forms, and items in Latin verbs: a fractal approach to tense construal

This talk took place on 18 of Noverber 2020 at the Korpuslinguistik und Phonetik colloquium in the Humboldt University of Berlin (colloquium 5220067).

In the first half of the first part, I focus on the mouldings of lexical items and their adaptions to their phonological and graphological contexts. In the second half, I show how selectable items can be the realisation of different semantic features in different words, the realisation of multiple semantic features at a given word, and a fragment of the realisation of a semantic feature in a given word group. In particular, I focus on the system of TENSE. In the second part, I apply this linguistic description to text analysis.

These basic concepts of linguistic description are useful for students and researchers, especially those who are interested in the mapping between semantics, grammar and phonology/graphology.