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New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, Volume 3: Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora

By Philip Baldi , Pierluigi Cuzzolin

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2010
ISBN
3110207540, 9783110207545
ISSN
1861-4302
Google Books ID
1Ki9YSZw3YMC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2583371 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 180.3
Volume
3
Pages
529\553
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-09-20 21:24:39

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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