The development of Latin clause structure : a study of the extended verb phrase /

The development of Latin clause structure : a study of the extended verb phrase /

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Author / Creator:	Danckaert, Lieven Jozef Maria, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Description:	xxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; 24 Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 24.
Subject:	Latin language -- Clauses. Latin language -- Verb. Latin language -- Word order.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11061483

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ISBN:	9780198759522 0198759525
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations, focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until 600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation, and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns.

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Call Number:	PA2293 .D36 2017
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