Description: Development of Latin Clause Structure : A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase, Hardcover by Danckaert, Lieven, ISBN 0198759525, ISBN-13 9780198759522, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Th 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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Book Title: Development of Latin Clause Structure : A Study of the Extended V
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Development of Latin Clause Structure : a Study of the Extended Verb Phrase
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Latin, Linguistics / General
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 25.4 Oz
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Lieven Danckaert
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
