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1 online resource |
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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; 24 |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 24.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; A note on glossing conventions; 1: What is at stake: Word order, configurationality, and the potential for structural ambiguity; 1.1 Introduction: what this book is about; 1.2 Latin word order flexibility: a brief demonstration; 1.2.1 Word order permutations; 1.2.2 Discontinuous constituents; 1.2.3 To sum up; 1.3 Approaches to Latin word order; 1.3.1 Non-configurational approaches |
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1.3.2 Semi-configurational approaches: linear templates1.3.3 Configurational approaches: phrase structure; 1.3.4 A note on hybrid systems; 1.3.5 To sum up; 1.4 Configurational or not: why bother?; 1.4.1 Introducing structural ambiguity; 1.4.2 and applying it to Latin; 1.4.3 The question in a nutshell: does Latin have a VP constituent?; 1.5 Evidence for a Latin VP, part 1: the interaction between verb placement and negation; 1.5.1 The NegVOR facts: a stepwise description; 1.5.1.1 Verb placement; 1.5.1.2 Position of sentential negation; 1.5.1.3 A constraint on negation and verb placement |
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1.5.1.4 Refining the generalization1.5.1.5 Some apparent counterexamples; 1.5.2 Interlude: from description to explanation; 1.5.3 Explaining NegVOR: a phrase structure based account; 1.5.3.1 Relativized Minimality: a constraint on syntactic movement; 1.5.3.2 RM for heads: the Head Movement Constraint at work; 1.5.3.3 Accounting for the empirical data of Latin sentential negation; 1.5.3.3.1 Latin non as a syntactic head; 1.5.3.3.2 A simple RM effect, and a way to bypass an intervener; 1.5.4 Discarding a non-explanation: the ̀Neg First principlé |
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1.5.4.1 ̀Neg-V-́orders in the languages of the world1.5.4.2 ̀Neg-V-́orders in Latin; 1.6 Evidence for a Latin VP, part 2: constituency tests; 1.6.1 Coordination; 1.6.2 Displacement (fronting); 1.6.3 Ellipsis; 1.6.4 Pronominalization; 1.6.5 Relativization; 1.6.6 To sum up; 1.7 Discarding some non-arguments against configurationality; 1.7.1 Discontinuous constituents; 1.7.2 A note on word order in poetry; 1.8 Some remarks on non-configurationality in generative grammar; 1.9 Conclusion: Latin as a (discourse- )configurational language |
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2: Latin corpus linguistics and the study of language change: Methods, problems, and prospects2.1 Studying language variation and change; 2.1.1 The nature of linguistic variation; 2.1.2 An illustration: the English dative alternation; 2.2 A Latin corpus (ca. 200 bc-600 ad); 2.2.1 Composition of the corpus; 2.2.2 Some texts that were not taken into account; 2.2.3 Some methodological remarks; 2.2.3.1 Sources and datasets; 2.2.3.2 What counts as a ̀direct object?́; 2.2.3.2.1 Only nominal objects; 2.2.3.2.2 No discontinuous objects; 2.2.3.2.3 No ̀peripheral ́direct objects |
| Summary |
This book examines Latin word order patterns, in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs. Lieven Danckaert offers a corpus-based description of these alternations and demonstrates that Latin is a fully configurational language, contrary to received wisdom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Latin language -- Word order
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Latin language -- Verb phrase
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Latin language -- Clauses
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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Latin language -- Clauses
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Latin language -- Word order
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191820243 |
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0191820245 |
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9780191077418 |
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0191077410 |
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