Latin Embedded Clauses: the left periphery
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 le…
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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 fram.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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3.5 Conclusion.
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- Description:1 online resource (386 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027274885, 9027274886, 1280497599, 9781280497599, 9789027255679, 9027255679
- oclc:ocn784887778
- LC Classification:PA2293
- Dewey Decimal:475
Table of Contents
Latin Embedded Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. The phenomenon of 'Left Edge Fronting'; 1.1 The core data; 1.2 Earlier accounts of Latin LEF; 1.3 Two types of LEF; 1.4 LEF in Latin adverbial clauses: A corpus survey; 2. Word order in Latin; 2.1 'Free but not arbitrary': On the flexibility of Latin word order; 2.2 Restrictions on word order permutations; 3. Linear order vs. hierarchical structure; 3.1 A case study: Object positions in Latin; 3.2 Linear order in syntax as a derived notion.
3.3 Conclusion4. Latin as a discourse-configurational language; 4.1 Word order and information structure; 4.2 Latin as a discourse configurational language; 4.3 Round-up; 5. Addendum: Studying word order variation: A crash course in generative syntax; 5.1 Some preliminaries; 5.2 Structure of the clause; 5.3 Movement; 5.4 Conclusion; Chapter 2. The internal syntax of Adverbial Clauses (ACs); 1. Adverbial clauses: The landscape; 1.1 Clausal adjuncts; 1.2 External syntax of ACs; 1.3 Latin ACs: Some key properties; 2. The operator derivation of ACs; 2.1 Temporal ACs as free relatives.
2.2 Conditionals2.3 Pos…
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