Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and InformationOxford University Press, 23 feb 2006 - 656 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
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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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Parole e frasi comuni
Ad Att Ad Fam adjective adjunct adverb analysis appear argument associated Brut Caesar camp castra Cato Cicero clause Compare complement conjunct constituent contrastive different direct object enemy English erat etiam event examples fear Figure final focus focused following forces functional genitive give hand head higher hyperbaton initial instance interpretation languages large last example Latin left legions Livy look material meaning mihi modifier name Nat Deor Nepos neutral noun phrase number object Orat order Phil place position possible Post postmodifier pragmatic preceding predicate premodifier prepositional present projection property prosodic quam quantifier question quidem raising reading reason relation relative restrictive Roman Rosc rule scope scrambled second semantic sentences Sest simple specifier stranding strong structure students subject syntactic syntax tail take theory three tibi topic Tusc type verb phrase Verr weak pronoun whole word order
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