Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora

Philip Baldi

ISBN 10: 3110207540 / ISBN 13: 9783110207545

Published by De Gruyter, DE, 2010

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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 Latingenerally accessible to linguists and non-linguiststheoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological termsdoes not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora
• Publisher: De Gruyter, DE
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110207540
• ISBN 13: 9783110207545
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 935 grams

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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