The Oxford Latin Syntax: Volume II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse

Description

In this two-volume work, the first full-scale treatment of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. He takes a non-technical and principally descriptive approach, based on literary and non-literary texts dating from c.250 BC to c.450 AD. The volumes contain a wealth of examples to illustrate the grammatical phenomena under discussion, many of them from the works of Plautus and Cicero, alongside extensive references to other sources of examples such as the Oxford Latin Dictionary and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. While the first volume explored the simple clause, this second volume focuses on the complex sentence and discourse. The first three chapters examine different types of subordinate clause; the following four then explore relative clauses, coordination, comparison, and secondary predicates. Later chapters investigate information structure and extraclausal expressions, word order, and discourse and related features. The Oxford Latin Syntax will be a valuable and up-to-date resource both for professional Latinists and all linguists with an interest in Classics. Title_Pages Preface Signs_and_other_Conventions Abbreviations Subordinate_clauses_common_properties_and_internal_structure Subordinate_clauses_filling_an_argument_position Subordinate_clauses_filling_a_satellite_position Subordinate_clauses_with_nouns_adjectives_and_adverbs Relative_clauses Coordination Comparison Secondary_predicates Information_structure_and_extraclausal_expressions Word_order Discourse Addenda_and_corrigenda_to_Volume_I Bibliography Index_Locorum Index_of_grammatical_terms_and_Latin_words