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This book applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale work of its kind in English, and contains extensive examples from literary and non-literary sources including Plautus and Cicero.

Harm Pinkster, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University of Amsterdam

Harm Pinkster is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Bologna, Aix-en-Provence, Penn State, Pavia, Venice, Oxford, and Chicago and is a member of both the Academia Europaea and the British Academy. He is the author of On Latin Adverbs (North-Holland, 1972; reprinted by Amsterdam University Press, 2005), Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins, 1983), and Latin Syntax and Semantics (Routledge, 1990). He is also the co-author of four of the five volumes of a Commentary on Cicero's De Oratore (Winter Verlag, 1981-1996).