The Accusativus cum Infinitivo, a syntactic construction proper to Latin and a few other Indo-European languages, was gradually replaced in Latin by an explicit subordinate clause and did not survive in Romance, except as a rather sophisticated Latinism in literary texts. The new subordinate clause was introduced in particular by the conjunctions quod and quia, whose occurrences outnumber those of other conjunctions such as quoniam or ut. However, the fact that quod and quia occur much more frequently than the other conjunctions and often in the same context should not conceal the fact that there are some basic differences between them. In particular, as for their origin, whereas the development of quod as subordination marker can be explained according to the dynamics of the internal history of Latin, nevertheless a sociolinguistic analysis of the first examples of quia shows that this conjunction is the result of Greek influence.

Some remarks on quia as a subordinator after verbs of saying and thinking

CUZZOLIN, Pierluigi
2013-01-01

Abstract

The Accusativus cum Infinitivo, a syntactic construction proper to Latin and a few other Indo-European languages, was gradually replaced in Latin by an explicit subordinate clause and did not survive in Romance, except as a rather sophisticated Latinism in literary texts. The new subordinate clause was introduced in particular by the conjunctions quod and quia, whose occurrences outnumber those of other conjunctions such as quoniam or ut. However, the fact that quod and quia occur much more frequently than the other conjunctions and often in the same context should not conceal the fact that there are some basic differences between them. In particular, as for their origin, whereas the development of quod as subordination marker can be explained according to the dynamics of the internal history of Latin, nevertheless a sociolinguistic analysis of the first examples of quia shows that this conjunction is the result of Greek influence.
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Cuzzolin, Pierluigi
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