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The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence
A study of Latin word order
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This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language. Thus far many observations have been made on Latin word order, particularly within the noun phrase. Yet a more systematic investigation with respect to the order of the sentence consituents was still lacking, that is, till the arrival of the current monograph The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A Study of Latin Word Order. This excellent research monograph on the order of the sentence consituents in a particular, typologically ambivalent language, will be welcomed by both Latinists and general linguists.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 11] 1982. viii, 178 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 August 2011
Published online on 10 August 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Preface | pp. v–5
- List of Displays | pp. vi–6
- Table of contents | pp. vii–viii
- I. Introduction | pp. 1–6
- II. Theoretical Background and Status Quaestionis | pp. 7–30
- 1. The Theory of Functional Sentence Perspective
- 2. Other Approaches to Word Order
- 3. Studies on Word Order in Latin
- III. The Communicative Perspective in Colloquial Latin: Plautus | pp. 31–58
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Non-emotive Word Order
- 3. Emotive Word Order
- 4. Conclusion
- IV. Colloquial Latin: Patterns, Problems, Prospects | pp. 59–98
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Relative Pronouns
- 3. Interrogative Sentences
- 4. Imperative Sentences
- 5. Disjunctions
- 6. “Accessory” Words in Second Position
- 7. Afterthoughts
- 8. Dominating Verb Inside Subordinate Clause
- 9. Rhematizing Factors
- 10. Toward a Better Comprehension of Texts
- V. The Place of the Verb in Legal and Religious Texts and the Emergence of a Literary Convention | pp. 99–116
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Religious Texts
- 3. Legal Texts
- 4. The Proto-Indo-European OV Pattern
- 5. The Emergence of a Literary Convention
- VI. The Communicative Perspective and the Place of the Verb in Classical Latin: Caesar | pp. 117–150
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Final Verbs
- 3. Semantic Roles and Communicative Dynamism
- 4. A Syntactic Factor in Word Order
- 5. Context
- 6. Non-final Verbs
- 7. Summary
- VII. Concluding Remarks | pp. 151–160
- 1. Word Order in Other Latin Authors
- 2. Communicative Word Order and Latin Accentuation
- 3. Evaluation of the Theory of FSP
- | pp. 161–172
- Place Index | pp. 173–176
- Author Index | pp. 177–178
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