Latin Embedded Clauses
The left periphery
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2012
XVIII, 368 pages
978-90-272-7488-5 (ISBN)
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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 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.
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Content
- 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 Conclusion
- 4. 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 Conditionals
- 2.3 Possible extensions
- 3. Main Clause Phenomena
- 3.1 What are Main Clause Phenomena?
- 3.2 Explaining the ban on embedded MCP
- 4. Two types of ACs
- 4.1 Central vs. peripheral ACs
- 4.2 External syntax
- 4.3 MCP in peripheral ACs
- 4.4 Peripheral ACs in Latin
- 5. The distribution of the particle quidem in ACs
- 5.1 Syntactic distribution of quidem
- 5.2 On the interpretation of quidem
- 5.3 quidem as a polarity marker
- 5.4 Accounting for the MCP-like distribution of quidem
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 3. The left periphery of embedded clauses
- 1. The position of subordinating conjunctions with respect to topics and foci
- 1.1 Subordinators in ForceP
- 1.2 Subordinators lower than ForceP
- 2. Clause typing and the role of ForceP
- 2.1 On the position of subordinating conjunctions in the C-system
- 2.2 The left periphery of Latin ACs
- 2.3 LEF in Latin: A closer look at the data
- 3. Corpus study of LEF in Latin ACs
- 3.1 Facts and figures
- 3.2 A first discussion of the figures
- 4. A preview of the upcoming analyses
- Chapter 4. The syntax of island pied-piping
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Presentation of the data
- 1.2 Cross-linguistic parallels
- 1.3 Islands vs. non-islands
- 2. Clausal pied-piping
- 2.1 Introduction: On the phenomenon of pied-piping9
- 2.2 Clausal/island pied-piping cross-linguistically
- 2.3 The syntax of clausal pied-piping
- 2.4 Island pied-piping in a wh-in-situ language
- 2.5 Two alternative analyses and their problems
- 2.6 Discussion: Internal wh-movement and successive cyclicity
- 3. A relative/interrogative asymmetry
- 3.1 The behaviour of Latin interrogative wh-
- 3.2 Asymmetries between relative and interrogative wh-
- 3.3 The feature make-up of wh-phrases
- 3.4 The derivation of Latin relative Verschränkung
- 3.5 Conclusion
- 4. Extending the pied-piping analysis to cases with 2 CPs
- 4.1 More on the nature of the relative clause in lef1
- 4.2 Two types of non-restrictive relative clauses
- 4.3 Two patterns in clausal pied-piping
- 4.4 On the pronoun introducing non-restrictive RCs
- 5. Summary
- Chapter 5. Clausal pied-piping by topics
- 1. Non wh-words undergoing LEF: The data
- 1.1 Type A: Single LEF
- 1.2 Type B: Multiple LEF
- 1.3 A note on ille
- 2. Excursus: Latin pronouns
- 2.1 The system of Latin personal pronouns
- 2.2 On the nature and usage of third person pronouns
- 2.3 ± Attributive
- 3. Type A: LEF1 with 1 pronoun
- 3.1 Clause-internal occurrences of IS
- 3.2 Fronted pronouns
- 3.3 Topicalization asymmetries in modern languages
- 4. Accounting for the left-right asymmetry
- 4.1 Clausal pied-piping by topics: Bayer 2001
- 4.2 Latin pronominal LEF
- 5. Type B: Multiple LEF, and what it can teach us
- 5.1 Multiple LEF: The data
- 5.2 Sources of multiple A'-movement
- 5.3 Latin: Only one pied-piper
- 5.4 Non-pronominal DP pied-pipers revisited
- 6. A possible alternative
- 6.1 Romance (esp. Italian) Clitic Left Dislocation
- 6.2 No pied-piping, is and hic in TopP
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. LEF2
- 1. A third kind of fronting in embedded clauses
- 1.1 Fronting in rightward clauses
- 1.2 Some interpretive characteristics of LEF2
- 1.3 What LEF2 is not, and why
- 1.4 A note on word order in poetry
- 2. Presentational foci in CP
- 2.1 Different types of constituent focus: The classical picture
- 2.2 Some refinements
- 2.3 Characterization of Latin LEF2
- 3. Summary
- 4. Interlude: The special behaviour of LEF under coordination
- 4.1 The data that initially made me think that LEF is postsyntacticPF-movement...
- 4.2 ... and the ones that subsequently made me abandon this idea
- Chapter 7. The syntax of LEF2
- 1. Diachronic evolution: Decline of LEF2
- 1.1 Results of the corpus study
- 1.2 Two hypotheses
- 2. The derivation of Latin SOV
- 2.1 Theoretical premises
- 2.2 Deriving the order 'verb-inflection' through vP movement:Some case studies
- 2.3 vP movement in Latin
- 3. A 'smuggling' derivation
- 3.1 Smuggling and locality
- 3.2 Details of the Latin derivation
- 4. Decline and loss of LEF2
- 4.1 Not so strictly INFL-final: V-XP order in Latin
- 4.2 Loss of vP movement and its consequences
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Language index
- Person index
- Subject index
