Latin syntax and semantics
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Latin syntax and semantics
（Romance linguistics）
Routledge, 1990
- Other Title
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Latijnse syntaxis en semantiek
Lateinische Syntax und Semantik
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Translation of: Latijnse syntaxis en semantiek
Rev. translation of the German ed.: Lateinische Syntax und Semantik
Bibliography: p. 295-315
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an analysis of the chief elements of Latin syntax written from the perspective of contemporary linguistic theory. This means that those elements are dealt with which can be understood or described better by combining the contributions of traditional philologically-based descriptions with the insights of recent descriptive or theoretical studies. The author adopts some aspects of the theory of functional grammar as developed by Simon Dik, which means that not only syntactic aspects of language receive attention, but semantic and pragmatic aspects as well. The description is mainly synchronic and examples are taken from classical authors, notably Cicero.
Table of Contents
- Nuclear predication
- periphery 1 - adjuncts
- periphery 2 - disjuncts (sentence adverbials) and theme constituents
- relators
- the (internal) structure of noun phrases
- complex sentences
- praedicativum
- word order
- sentence type, illocutionary force and mood
- the Latin tense system
- beyond the sentence.
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