Emphatic: emphatic form
| Values: | Yes |
This is a binary (yes/no) morphological feature that is only annotated when its value is Yes.
Yes: emphatic form of a word
This value is marked either for words which appear in an expanded, emphatic form with respect to a basic one, and that can be no longer analyzed as a compound if it ever was one, or for (functional) words (usually labelled as particles) which serve the purpose of creating an emphatic expression in association with another (lexical) word (usually taking the deprel advmod:emph like focus particles, which are mostly labelled as adverbs).
In Latin, strategies to mark emphasis are often specific to a given word subclass, like personal pronouns, and can sometimes be traced back to demonstrative/pronominal or interjective elements.
Examples
- enim is emphatic with respect to nam
- equidem is emphatic with respect to quidem
- ecce is a “presentative particle” in an emphatic form, also with a demonstrative -ce element
- in all these words, an e- element appears, which might be the same
- namque is another emphatic form of nam showing the common -que suffix
- meopte shows an emphatic -pte suffix, which is added to possessives
- semet shows an emphatic -met suffix, added to personal pronouns (egomet, tibimet…), often treated as a clitic
- mehercle can possibly be seen as an emphatic form of the vocative of Hercules (me- might correspond to the first-person personal pronoun)
Emphatic in other languages: [pl]