
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax / Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
Published on 23. December 2010
Book
Mixed media product
XXI, 529 pages
978-3-11-173847-5 (ISBN)
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Description
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Constituent Syntax (Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora) is the third of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. Essentially an extension of Volume 2, Volume 3 concentrates on additional subsentential syntactic phenomena and their long-term evolution from the earliest texts up to the Late Latin period. Included in Volume 3 are detailed treatments of quantification, numerals, possession, and deixis/anaphora. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience. Key features first publication to investigates the long-term syntactic history of Latin generally accessible to linguists and non-linguists theoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological terms does not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
ISBN-13
978-3-11-173847-5 (9783111738475)
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