Latin word order [[electronic resource] ] : structured meaning and information / / A.M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens

• Record Nr.: UNISA996209835003316
• Autore: Devine A. M (Andrew M.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-85148-5; 9786611851484; 0-19-972050-9; 1-4356-3375-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (650 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): StephensLaurence D
• Disciplina: 475
• Soggetti: Latin language - Word order; Latin language - Semantics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 611-630) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Introduction""; ""Semantics and pragmatics""; ""Studying word order""; ""Thematic Roles""; ""Pragmatic values""; ""Notation for semantic and pragmatic meaning""; ""Syntactic structure""; ""Prosodic structure""; ""Postscript""; ""1 Arguments of Verbs""; ""1.1 SUBJECTS""; ""1.2 DITRANSITIVES""; ""Dare""; ""Other verbs of giving""; ""Donare""; ""Adimere""; ""Extorquere and eripere""; ""Prepositional prefix verbs""; ""1.3 OBLIQUE ARGUMENTS: LOCATIVES AND INSTRUMENTS""; ""Conlocare""; ""Liberare""; ""Instrumental arguments""; ""Goal phrases""; ""Source phrases""""1.4 ADJUNCTS""; ""Instrumentals""; ""Causa""; ""Time and place adverbials""; ""Manner and means phrases""; ""Comitatives""; ""Ablative absolutes""; ""1.5 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS""; ""Neutral order""; ""Flat syntax""; ""Complement Syntax""; ""Specifier syntax""; ""Postscript""; ""1.6 SCRAMBLING""; ""Adverbs of manner""; ""Structural analysis""; ""Obliques in Cato""; ""1.7 POSTVERBAL CONSTITUENTS""; ""Postverbal constituents in Caesar""; ""V-bar syntax""; ""2 Verb Positions""; ""2.1 VERB INITIAL""; ""Polarity focus""; ""Imperatives""; ""Existential and presentational sentences""; ""Passives""""Psych verbs""; ""Discourse cohesion operators""; ; ""Conjoined structures""; ""Structural analysis""; ""2.2 VERB SECOND""; ""Negative quantifiers""; ""Weak focus""; ""Structural analysis""; ""2.3 THE AUXILIARY""; ""Eventive sentences""; ""Raising to focus""; ""Negation""; ""Subordinate clauses""; ""Individual verbs""; ""Structural analysis""; ""2.4 THE COPULA""; ""Relative subjects""; ""Lexical subjects""; ""Negation""; ""Raising to CP""; ""Structural Analysis""; ""2.5 EXISTENTIAL ESSE""; ""Structural analysis""; ""2.6 SALLUST AND CATO""; ""Sallust""; ""Cato""; ""3 Strong and Weak Arguments""""3.1 TOPIC AND FOCUS""; ""Strong narrow focus""; ""Yes-No questions""; ""Nonne questions""; ""Alternative questions""; ""Chiasmus with arguments and adjuncts""; ""Chiasmus with a verb""; ""3.2 ASSOCIATION WITH FOCUS""; ""Semper, saepe""; ""Numquam""; ""Non solum, non modo""; ""Quoque""; ""Ne quidem""; ""Split proper names""; ""Structural analysis""; ""3.3 WEAK PRONOUNS""; ""Strong and weak pronouns""; ""Weak pronoun positions""; ""Weak pronouns after Comp""; ""Domain external structures""; ""Raising to focus""; ""Structural Analysis""; ""Weak pronouns and modified noun phrases""""4 Arguments of Nominals""; ""4.1 NOUN PHRASES""; ""Subjective and objective genitives""; ""Psych nouns""; ""The left node rule: Erga complements""; ""Nomina actionis""; ""Nomina agentis""; ""Relational nouns""; ""Possessives""; ""Partitives""; ""Narrow strong focus in noun phrases""; ""4.2 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS""; ""Structures for genitives""; ""Theories for Latin""; ""Posthead genitives""; ""Prehead genitives""; ""The functional theory""; ""Cross-categoriality""; ""Focus semantics in NPs""; ""Informational individuation""; ""The prosodic theory""; ""4.3 ADJECTIVE PHRASES""
• Sommario/riassunto: Combining the documentation of the 19th-century philological tradition with the insights and analytical tools of late 20th-century theoretical linguistics, this book develops a theory of Latin word order. It introduces the linguistic concepts, formalism and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order.