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Author : Hannah Rosen
Release : 1983
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Book Synopsis The Mechanisms of Latin Nominalization and Conceptualization in Historical View by : Hannah Rosen
Download or read book The Mechanisms of Latin Nominalization and Conceptualization in Historical View written by Hannah Rosen. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga Spevak
Release : 2022
Genre : Latin language
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Book Synopsis Nominalization in Latin by : Olga Spevak
Download or read book Nominalization in Latin written by Olga Spevak. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is devoted to verbal nouns, defined as nouns which have a systematic correspondence with a clause structure. This book aims to contribute to the much-debated question of "abstract nouns" in general and "verbal derivatives" in particular by showing that syntactic parameters are useful for a better classification of what are traditionally called nomina actionis. It adopts a descriptive approach and it provides methods and criteria for identifying these nouns, which retain some verbal properties and for distinguishing them from nouns with concrete reference. This distinction is important for a better understanding of Latin texts and for the presentation of these words in dictionaries. This book investigates the use of verbal nouns in various text types: narrative texts and technical treatises (rhetoric, architecture, and legal texts). It shows that verbal nouns, as well as gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and partly also infinitives, are competing expressions with a low "sententiality" that serve, to different extents, to condensate clausal expressions. They form a system, in which the elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary. The fact that Latin does not have a verbal noun available for every verb should not be viewed as a "deficiency", but as a facet of this complex system"--
Author : Olga Spevak
Release : 2014-01-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose by : Olga Spevak
Download or read book The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose written by Olga Spevak. This book was released on 2014-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internal ordering of Latin noun phrases is very flexible in comparison with modern European languages. Whereas there are a number of studies devoted to the variable placement of modifiers, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose proposes an entirely new approach: a discussion of the semantic and syntactic properties of both nouns and modifiers. Using recent insights in general linguistics, it argues that not only pragmatic factors but also semantic factors (whether we are dealing with an inherent property, the author’s assessment, or a further specification of a referent) are responsible for the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases. Additionally, this book discusses prepositional phrases functioning as modifiers, and appositions, which have received little attention in the literature.
Author : M. Bolkestein
Release : 2019-09-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Theory and Description in Latin Linguistics by : M. Bolkestein
Download or read book Theory and Description in Latin Linguistics written by M. Bolkestein. This book was released on 2019-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by R. Amacker, C. Bodelot, P. Carvalho, W. Dressler, G. Haverlin, R. Maltby
Author : Harm Pinkster
Release : 2021-03-31
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Latin Syntax by : Harm Pinkster
Download or read book The Oxford Latin Syntax written by Harm Pinkster. This book was released on 2021-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume work, the first full-scale treatment of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. He takes a non-technical and principally descriptive approach, based on literary and non-literary texts dating from c.250 BC to c.450 AD. The volumes contain a wealth of examples to illustrate the grammatical phenomena under discussion, many of them from the works of Plautus and Cicero, alongside extensive references to other sources of examples such as the Oxford Latin Dictionary and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. While the first volume explored the simple clause, this second volume focuses on the complex sentence and discourse. The first three chapters examine different types of subordinate clause; the following four then explore relative clauses, coordination, comparison, and secondary predicates. Later chapters investigate information structure and extraclausal expressions, word order, and discourse and related features. The Oxford Latin Syntax will be a valuable and up-to-date resource both for professional Latinists and all linguists with an interest in Classics.
