Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

ON DEVIANT CASE-MARKING IN LATIN 351

resented by abundo ("I abound"), on the one hand, and careo ("I lack"),
on the other, will not be appreciably different from that described for the
verbs of remembrance, e.g., memini. Stative verbs of both dearth and
abundance, being possession verbs, license a locative and theme argument.
As stated, some of the verbs in these two groups allow both genitive and
ablative coding of the outranked theme, but this argument is more com­
monly ablative. (With some such verbs, e.g. indigeo ("I need"), genitive
coding of the theme argument commonly occurs; with most others, it is
unattested or rare.) Hence, for example, abundo ("I abound with"), a
single-macrorole stative, sanctions a marked linkage of locative to U; the
theme argument is realized as ablative by (26). A corresponding causative,
onero ("I load"), contains a representation of the stative class exemplified
by abundo as the goal-state in its LS, and one can thus predict that onero
most likely sanctions ablative case-marking of the item "loaded". This pre­
diction is confirmed by sentence (14b). Given the statives indigeo or careo
("I lack"), which license ablative theme arguments, one can analogously
predict that, e.g., the removal verb privo ("I deprive") licenses an ablative
theme argument as well. This prediction is borne out by (15a). Table 1 sum­
marizes the case-marking parallelisms obtaining among the three types of

STATES ACCOMPLISHMENTS

recollection reminding

remember' (Loc,Th) [do' (Ef)] CAUSE [BECOME...]

Loc=U=PrP=NOM, Ef=A=PrP=NOM, Loc=U=ACC,

Th=NMC=GEN Th=NMC=GEN

lack removal

NOTbe-at'/have' (Loc, Th) [do' (Ef)] CAUSE [BECOME...]

Loc=U=NOM, Ef=A=PrP=NOM, Loc=U=ACC,

Th=NMC=AB/GEN Th=NMC=AB/GEN

abundance transfer

be-at'/have' (Loc, Th) [do' (Ef)] CAUSE [BECOME...]

Loc=U=PrP=NOM, Ef=A=PrP=NOM, Loc=U=ACC,

Th=NMC=AB/GEN Th=NMC=AB/GEN

Table 1