https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111332956-019 Luisa Brucale and Egle Mocciaro Drawing the Comitative Area: The Semantic Network of co(-m/-n/-r/-l)-/cum in Plautus Abstract: We describe the semantic network of the preposition cum and the preverb co(-m/-n/-r/-l)-, based on the survey of Plautus’ corpus conducted on the Library of Latin Texts Online (LLT-A). Although preposition and preverb have individually received considerable attention, neither their relationship nor that between the various senses included in their respective semantic networks have ever been systematically addressed. On the basis of Cognitive Grammar, we will propose that preverb and preposition share a basic semantics, here referred to as the “CUM-relation”, which accounts for the entire set of concrete (e.g., comitative) and non-concrete (e.g., intensive) meanings they express. However, cum and co(-m/-n/-r/-l)- instantiate the CUM-relation differently and different mechanisms are involved in the development of their semantic continua. This analysis allows us to trace the semantic maps of preposition and preverb at a specific stage of the language and highlight the areas where they converge or diverge. Keywords: prepositions and preverbs, Plautus, Cognitive Grammar 1 Introduction This paper describes the semantic network of the Latin preposition cum and the homo-etymological preverb co(-m/-n/-r/-l)-. Although they have individually received considerable attention, neither the relationship between preposition and preverb nor the relationship between the various senses included in their respec- tive semantic networks have ever been systematically addressed. To begin filling this gap, we have undertaken a preliminary survey of the Plautus corpus, conducted on the Library of Latin Texts Online (LLT-A), the results of which we present here. Luisa Brucale, Università di Palermo, Italy Egle Mocciaro, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Note: This work results from close collaboration of the authors. For academic purposes, Luisa Brucale is responsible for 1, 2, 4; Egle Mocciaro for 3, 5 and 6.