Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and InformationOxford University Press, USA, 2006 - 639 pagine Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at best using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book begins by introducing the reader to the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then proceeds to present and analyze a representative selection of data in sufficient detail for the reader to develop both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this work aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general crosscategorial system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning. |
Sommario
ABBREVIATIONS | xi |
Introduction | 3 |
1 Arguments of Verbs | 36 |
2 Verb Positions | 145 |
3 Strong and Weak Arguments | 225 |
4 Arguments of Nominals | 314 |
5 Modiers | 403 |
6 Hyperbaton | 524 |
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Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Anteprima limitata - 2006 |
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Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Visualizzazione estratti - 2006 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Ad Att Ad Fam adjective adjunct adverb analysis argument atque auxiliary bellum Brut c-commanding Caec Caesar camp castra Cato causa chiasmus Cicero clause clitic complement constituent contrastive copula crit direct object discourse Dumnorix enim erant erat erga example BG Flacc focus phrase focus position focused following examples Gaul genitive instance last example Latin left node Leg Agr legions lexical Livy locis metu mihi multis Nat Deor Nepos neutral order noun phrase null head modifier numquam omnes omnis Orat Phil Planc posthead postverbal pragmatic predicate prehead premodifier hyperbaton prepositional phrase preverbal prosodic quae quam quantifier quidem quod Rab Perd Roman Rosc Sall Cat sed etiam semantic semper sentences Sest solum stranding strong focus structure sunt syntactic syntax tail theory tibi topic Tusc verb initial verb phrase verb raising Verr weak focus weak pronoun word order