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Latin Embedded Clauses
Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert
其他書名
The Left Periphery
出版John Benjamins Publishing, 2012
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
ISBN97890272556799027255679
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ayZ6FXoAgE4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the framework of generative grammar, but since a thorough introduction is provided, no special background in formal syntax is required. Major topics touched upon are word order, information structure, locality, and the syntax of pied-piping. The book covers both synchronic and diachronic topics of Latin syntax, and is of interest for classical philologists, historical linguists, and formal syntacticians.