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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Lieven Jozef Maria Danckaert |
ISBN: | 9780198759522 0198759525 |
OCLC Number: | 1090027532 |
Target Audience: | Pregrado |
Description: | xxii, 356 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Series prefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsA note on glossing conventions1: What is at stake: Word order, configurationality, and the potential for structural ambiguity2: Latin corpus linguistics and the study of language change: Methods, problems and prospect3: Multiple object positions and how to diagnose them4: VOAux: A typologically rare word order pattern5: Changing EPP parameters: Clause structure in Classical and Late Latin6: The development of BE-periphrasesEpilogue. : Variable direction of complementation in the Latin clause: A synthesisGlossaryReferences |
Series Title: | Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics. |
Responsibility: | Lieven Danckaert. |
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Danckaert in this volume has given us new knowledge about the development of word order in the constructions that he has chosen to study. This contribution is very important and valuable-and will be appreciated even by those who do not share his convictions about his theoretical framework. * Gerd V. M. Haverling, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Danckaert's work is a very deep research with important analyses and is definitely a must-read for linguists interested in diachronic studies of Latin, especially those working on generative approaches. * Bruno O. Maroneze, LinguistList * ... the book is a powerful vindication of the configurational approach to Latin word order and presents a challenge that those of us who prefer to think of Latin clause structure in less strictly configurational terms must rise to. * Dag Haug, Gnomon * Read more...

