Pragmatics for Latin : from syntax to information structure / A.M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens.
2020
PA2293 .D485 2020
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Title
Pragmatics for Latin : from syntax to information structure / A.M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens.
ISBN
9780190939502 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
PA2293 .D485 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
470.145
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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Previously issued in print: 2019.
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).
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Stephens, Laurence D., author.
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