Latin Embedded Clauses

Author : Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255679
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Embedded Clauses written by Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the framework of generative grammar, but since a thorough introduction is provided, no special background in formal syntax is required. Major topics touched upon are word order, information structure, locality, and the syntax of pied-piping. The book covers both synchronic and diachronic topics of Latin syntax, and is of interest for classical philologists, historical linguists, and formal syntacticians.

Author : Lieven Danckaert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027274886
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Embedded Clauses written by Lieven Danckaert and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the framework of generative grammar, but since a thorough introduction is provided, no special background in formal syntax is required. Major topics touched upon are word order, information structure, locality, and the syntax of pied-piping. The book covers both synchronic and diachronic topics of Latin syntax, and is of interest for classical philologists, historical linguists, and formal syntacticians.

Author : Andreas Trotzke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lieven Danckaert, Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery written by Andreas Trotzke and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lieven Danckaert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191077410
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Latin Clause Structure written by Lieven Danckaert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations, focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until 600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation, and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns. Four pieces of evidence are presented that suggest that Latin is indeed a fully configurational language, despite its high degree of word order flexibility. Specifically, it is shown that there is ample evidence for the existence of a verb phrase constituent. The book thus contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the status of configurationality as a language universal.

Author : Macon Anderson Leiper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Subordinate Clause Syntax written by Macon Anderson Leiper and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renato Oniga
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191007412
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin: A Linguistic Introduction written by Renato Oniga and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets of generative grammar in an in-depth analysis of the main phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Latin, and offers a step-by-step guide to the universal principles and specific parameters which shape the language, along with comparative data from English and other languages. Latin: A Linguistic Introduction is a user-friendly and essential guide to the synchronic study of Latin as a natural language. The clarity of exposition and the richness of the examples cited provide a new approach to Latin as a topic of linguistic research: although the general structure of the book is like that of a traditional Latin grammar, the discussion of grammatical rules is both more straightforward and more theoretically informed. This textbook is principally suitable for students of Latin and Romance linguistics at undergraduate level and above, but also for teachers and researchers interested in new ways of looking at the study of Latin. It differs from many other textbooks in the field by striking a valuable balance between the longstanding tradition of classical philology and the innovations of contemporary linguistics.

Author : Deborah Jean Pennell Ross
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Total Pages : 129 pages
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Download or read book The order of words in Latin subordinate clauses written by Deborah Jean Pennell Ross and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Wolfe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192609920
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Change in French written by Sam Wolfe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel analysis of the major syntactic developments in the history of French. The empirical scope of the volume is exceptionally broad, and includes discussion of syntactic variation and change in Latin, Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Classical French, and standard and non-standard varieties of Modern French. Following an introduction to the general trends in grammatical change from Latin to French, Sam Wolfe explores a wide range of phenomena including the left periphery, subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, negation, and the makeup of the nominal expression. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of how French has come to develop the unique typological profile it has within Romance today. The volume will thus be an indispensable tool for researchers and students in French and comparative Romance linguistics, as well as for readers interested in grammatical theory and historical linguistics more broadly.

Author : Deborah Ross
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Order of Words in Latin Subordinate Clauses written by Deborah Ross and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Artemis Alexiadou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227539
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Relative Clauses written by Artemis Alexiadou and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne's (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. The editors provide a thorough introduction of these proposals, their background and motivations, arguments for and against. There are detailed studies in the syntax and the semantics of relative clauses constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Hindi, (Old) English, Old High German, (dialects of) Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, and Japanese. The book should be of interest to any linguist working within generative syntax.