Olga Spevak, Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose, Amsterdam, 2010.
Éditeur : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Collection : Studies in Language Companion Series, 117
xv + 318 pages
ISBN : 978-90-272-0584-1
105 €
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order, it discusses the ordering of the verb and its arguments in declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences, as well as the ordering within noun phrases. It shows that the relationship of a constituent with its surrounding context and the communicative intention of the writer are the most reliable predictors of the order of constituents in a sentence or noun phrase. It differs from recent studies of Latin word order in its scope, its theoretical approach, and its attention to contextual information. The book is intended both for Latinists and for linguists working in the fields of the Romance languages and language typology.
Table of contents
Preface xiii–xiv
Abbreviations xv–xvi
Introduction 1–12
Placement constraints and liberties in Latin constituent order 13–26
Pragmatic functions 27–114
Declarative sentences 115–194
Interrogative sentences 195–204
Imperative sentences 205–222
Noun phrases 223–282
Conclusion 283–286
References 287–298
Index locorum 299–302
Index rerum 303–304
Three commented texts 305–318
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