Latin Word Order

Author : Olga Spevak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205841

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Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose by Olga Spevak Pdf

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 : A. M. Devine,Professor of Classics A M Devine,Laurence D. Stephens,Laurence D.. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780195181685

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Latin Word Order by A. M. Devine,Professor of Classics A M Devine,Laurence D. Stephens,Laurence D.. Stephens Pdf

Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at best using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book begins by introducing the reader to the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then proceeds to present and analyze a representative selection of data in sufficient detail for the reader to develop both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this work aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general crosscategorial system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.

Author : Dirk G.J. Panhuis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282149

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The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence by Dirk G.J. Panhuis Pdf

This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking, that is, till the arrival of the current monograph The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A Study of Latin Word Order. This excellent research monograph on the order of the sentence consituents in a particular, typologically ambivalent language, will be welcomed by both Latinists and general linguists.

Author : Helma Dik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004409002

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Word Order in Ancient Greek by Helma Dik Pdf

Author : A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199720507

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Latin Word Order by A. M. Devine,Laurence D. Stephens Pdf

Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at best using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book begins by introducing the reader to the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then proceeds to present and analyze a representative selection of data in sufficient detail for the reader to develop both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this work aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general crosscategorial system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.

Author : Dirk G. J. Panhuis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472115421

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Latin Grammar by Dirk G. J. Panhuis Pdf

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Author : Paolo Dainotti
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Latin language
ISBN : 3110384221

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Word Order and Expressiveness in the Aeneid by Paolo Dainotti Pdf

This full-length book on Virgil’s style aims to clarify an important aspect of poetry; namely, the relationship between word order and expressiveness. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages of the Aeneid and other hexametric poetry that clearly shows a stylistically motivated use of the various figures, the author provides an effective tool for evaluating and fully appreciating the expressiveness of the word order.

Author : Harm Pinkster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1465 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199283613

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The Oxford Latin Syntax by Harm Pinkster Pdf

The goal of this work is to present an up-to-date successor to Keuhner-Stegmann's Ausfeuhrliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache, taking into account new editions of Latin texts with better knowledge of the manuscripts, the publication and study of texts unknown in Keuhner-Stegmann's time, recent linguistic studies, and new methods and models in linguistics.

Author : Randall Toth Ganiban
Publisher : Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015080849964

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Aeneid 2 by Randall Toth Ganiban Pdf

This book is part of a series of individual volumes covering Books 1-6 of Vergil's Aeneid. Each book will include an introduction, notes, bibliography, commentary and glossary, and be edited by an expert in the field. These individual volumes will form a combined Vol 1-6 book as well.

Author : Andrew Keller,Stephanie Russell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780300194982

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Learn to Read Latin by Andrew Keller,Stephanie Russell Pdf

Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct access to unabridged passages drawn from a wide variety of Latin texts. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns of Latin word order and other features of style. Learn to Read Latinis designed to be comprehensive and requires no supplementary materialsexplains English grammar points and provides drills especially for today's studentsoffers sections on Latin metricsincludes numerous unaltered examples of ancient Latin prose and poetryincorporates selections by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid, presented chronologically with introductions to each author and workoffers a comprehensive workbook that provides drills and homework assignments.This enlarged second edition improves upon an already strong foundation by streamlining grammatical explanations, increasing the number of syntax and morphology drills, and offering additional short and longer readings in Latin prose and poetry.

Author : Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199255917

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The World Atlas of Language Structures by Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie Pdf

"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides ... 142 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features"--Intro.

Author : József Herman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230317

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Linguistic Studies on Latin by József Herman Pdf

The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary linguistics, mainly, but not exclusively, the theoretical tools of functional grammar and of the newest trends in pragmatics. Most studies envisage Latin in its synchronic functioning, but some papers embrace diachronic processes, from the archaic period to late and even pre-Romance stages.The volume is divided in several sections: “Phonology and Morpho-syntax” includes one paper on phonology (Fr. Biville) and three on morphology (G.C.L.M. Bakkum, G. Haverling, P. Manuel Suárez). Problems of the syntax of the simple sentence, often in relation to word order phenomena, are discussed in seven articles in Section 2 (Ch. Elerick, H. Fugier, Jan R. de Jong, Marius Lavency, E. Rizzi and P. Molinelli, Hannah Rosén, M.H. Somers). The grammatical problems of the complex sentence were examined by a great many participants of the colloquium, and the third section, “Subordination”, presents eight of those papers (Gu. Calboli, P. De Carvalho, P. Cuzzolin, J. Dangel, S. Mellet, J.A.H. Mensink, P. Ramat, E. Vester). The section on text cohesion and particles — an almost traditional field of research in new Latin linguistics — includes papers by A.M. Bolkestein, C. Kroon, R. Risselada, and M.E. Torrego. The final section, “Problems of the Lexicon”, devoted to the historical-comparative or semantic descriptive analysis of lexical elements, contains four articles (R. Coleman, B. García Hernández, L. Nadjo, Chr. Touratier). An Index of Names closes the volume.

Author : Norma Goldman,Ladislas Szymanski
Publisher : Hodder Arnold
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English language
ISBN : 0340761075

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English Grammar for Students of Latin by Norma Goldman,Ladislas Szymanski Pdf

Thousands of students have found these books the ideal way to master the grammar of their chosen language. They offer a step-by-step explanation of a concept as it applies to English, a presentation of the same concept as it appplies to the target language, the similarities and differences between the two languages, stressing common pitfalls for English speakers and including review exercises with an answer key.

Author : Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198747307

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Word Order Change by Ana Maria Martins,Adriana Cardoso Pdf

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0615702503

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Essential Latin Vocabulary by Mark Williams Pdf

This book is designed to help beginning and intermediate students master the vocabulary necessary to read real Latin with fluency and comprehension. It also serves as a resource for instructors and tutors. The text presents 1,425 words that allow a student to comprehend about 95 percent of all the vocabulary they will ever see in an actual Latin text. The terms found in the present book have been culled from statistical analyses of the works of more than two hundred authors in order to identify the core vocabulary. Were students to start out by learning the 25 most common words on this list, an astonishing 29 percent of all the vocabulary ever needed would be at their command. If a student masters the 300 most frequent words in this list, well over half of all the vocabulary necessary for fluent reading will be theirs. The goal of the book is to provide the student with the most efficient way to learn vocabulary. Chapters 1 and 2, in particular, are designed for drill, review, and study. The first chapter draws together all words that share the same grammatical classification. For example, all third declension neuter nouns are brought together in one place, with their definitions. By listing the vocabulary in grammatical groups, all the words that share a set of endings are assembled for the student: vocabulary and endings thus reinforce each other. Furthermore, each list of terms is broken down into groups of five words for ease in drawing up vocabulary lists to work with. Within the grammatical lists, each part of speech is preceded by an account of how the terms within are distributed. A student thus quickly learns that while there are 413 verbs that need to be mastered, well over one-third of these (157) are found in the third conjugation, while only about one per-cent (21) will be found in the fourth conjugation. With such information, independent students or instructors can prioritize their study and assignments more appropriately. In the second chapter, large parts of the vocabulary, with their attendant definitions, are regrouped by topics. A student who wishes, therefore, to focus on nature, human emotions, or military issues, will find such vocabulary conveniently grouped together. Chapter three lists the vocabulary terms from the most frequently occurring words to the least frequent. Students or instructors who wish to lean more heavily on the most (or least!) frequently occurring terms within their drills and studies can thus consult this frequency list. After the frequency list, the fourth chapter presents an alphabetical index of the terms. Two final chapters close the text. The first is a list of endings and paradigms for nouns, adjectives and verbs. Complete paradigms and endings are given for review. The final chapter provides the student with an additional one hundred words that are uniquely common in the Latin of the Middle Ages. These one hundred words, if added to the mix, would give the student a Mediaeval vocabulary that would match the efficiency of the Classical vocabulary that is the main focus of the book. For the effort of learning an additional one hundred words, another 1,000 years of Latin texts open up before the student. As a whole, then, this book offers the vocabulary that forms the core of one thousand seven hundred years of Latin literature. If the goal is to learn to read Latin with joy and ease, then the vocabulary terms in this book are one of the major keys to success. By learning these terms, a student's vocabulary should be ready to tackle the Latin of any era from the Classical period to the Renaissance.