On the Syntax of the Latin Verb
Author : Samuel SEYER (M.A., the Younger.)
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1798
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Author : Samuel SEYER (M.A., the Younger.)
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1798
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Author : William Elisha Peters
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Page : 558 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Latin language
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Author : Harm Pinkster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192608894
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.
Author : Joseph Henry Allen
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Latin language
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Author : Giuseppe Pezzini
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 019873624X
Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and some of its hidden properties. Like the English 'be' (e.g. it's), the Latin forms of esse could undergo phonetic reduction or contraction. This phenomenon is largely unknown since classical texts have undergone a long process of transmission over the centuries, which has altered or deleted its traces. Although they are often neglected by scholars and puzzling to students, the use of contracted forms is shown to be widespread and significant. These forms expose the clitic nature of esse, which also explains other properties of the verb, including its participation in a prosodic simplification with a host ending in -s (sigmatic ecthlipsis), a phenomenon which is also discussed in the volume. After an introduction on methodology, the volume discusses the linguistic significance of such phenomena, focusing in particular on analysis of their behaviour in the plays of the ancient Roman playwright, Terence. Combining traditional scholarship with the use of digital resources, the volume explores the orthographic, phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of the verb esse, revealing that cliticization is a key feature of the verb 'to be' in Latin, and that contractions deserve a place within its paradigm.
Author : Charles Edwin Bennett
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Latin language
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Author : Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199209022
This is the first comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system. In order to see what functions such forms fulfil, one has to compare their usage to that of the regular verb forms. In Part 1, Wolfgang de Melo outlines the usage of regular verb forms, which, surprisingly, has not always been described adequately in the standard grammars. In Part 2, the central partof the book, he compares the usage of the extra-paradigmatic verb forms to that of the regular ones, restricting himself to Archaic Latin (roughly before 100 BC); here he makes many new and unexpected discoveries. In Part 3, de Melo shows how synchronic usage can help us to reconstruct earlierstages of the language which are not attested; he also points out that, while most of the extra-paradigmatic forms die out after 100 BC, some survive - and that such survival is by no means a matter of chance.
Author : Olga Spevak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027205841
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. "Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose "(Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order, it discusses the ordering of the verb and its arguments in declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences, as well as the ordering within noun phrases. It shows that the relationship of a constituent with its surrounding context and the communicative intention of the writer are the most reliable predictors of the order of constituents in a sentence or noun phrase. It differs from recent studies of Latin word order in its scope, its theoretical approach, and its attention to contextual information. The book is intended both for Latinists and for linguists working in the fields of the Romance languages and language typology.
Author : Eric Charles Woodcock
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
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ISBN : 9781015008182
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Author : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1898
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