New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax. / Volume 3, : Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Baldi, Philip,; Bertocchi, Alessandra,; Cuzzolin, Pierluigi,; Maraldi, Mirka,; Nuti, Andrea,; Orlandini, Anna,; Pieroni, Silvia,; Villa, Jesús de la,
• HerausgeberIn: Baldi, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 180/3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (529 p.)

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Constituent Syntax (Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora) is the third of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. Essentially an extension of Volume 2, Volume 3 concentrates on additional subsentential syntactic phenomena and their long-term evolution from the earliest texts up to the Late Latin period. Included in Volume 3 are detailed treatments of quantification, numerals, possession, and deixis/anaphora. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience. Key features first publication to investigates the long-term syntactic history of Latin generally accessible to linguists and non-linguists theoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological terms does not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Detailed contents -- List of abbreviations -- Prolegomena -- Quantification -- Numerals -- Possession -- Deixis and anaphora -- Subject index -- Index of classical references