Olga Spevak
List of John Benjamins publications in which Olga Spevak is
involved.
Titles
Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek
Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak
Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read moreNoun Valency
Edited by Olga Spevak
Despite a recent spate of publications, the valency of nouns is a topic that still remains in the shadow of the valency of verbs. This volume aims to contribute to the discussion of noun valency not only from a theoretical point of view, as is often the case, but also from an empirical one by… read moreConstituent Order in Classical Latin Prose
Olga Spevak
Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order,… read moreArticles
Spevak, Olga 2014
Chapter 8. Noun valency in Latin Noun Valency, Spevak, Olga (ed.), pp. 183–210 | Article This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons’ typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete… read more 
