Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora
Author | : Philip Baldi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110215465 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110215462 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Download or read book Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora written by Philip Baldi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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