Pragmatics for Latin : from syntax to information structure / A.M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens.
Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. This book provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2020.
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| Summary: | Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. This book provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence and elaborates a syntax-pragmatics interface that formalizes the informational content of the various different word orders. The book covers a wide ranges of issues including broad scope focus, narrow scope focus, double focus, topicalization, tails, focus alternates, association with focus, scrambling, informational structure inside the noun phrase and hyperbaton (discontinuous constituency) |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190939502 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190939472.001.0001 |