Harm Pinkster

On Latin Adverbs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study deals with a number of aspects of the words which are usually called adverbs in Latin. It contains on the one hand a critical discussion of their treatment in Latin grammatical studies -- the characteristics attributed to them, their relationship to other words -- and on the other hand a discussion of the conditions that have to be met in order to achieve a better (sub)classification -- general problems of classification as well as criteria for affecting such classification -- and a better description of the functions of adverbs in larger constructions. The study contains, therefore, both language-specific sections and more general ones. The author wrote the passages specifically dealing with Latin in such a way that they are clear enough to the non-Latinist, the more general passages in such a way that they are understandable for Latinists who are not acquainted with recent developments in linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789085551317
• ISBN-10: 9085551315
• Artikelnr.: 72140898

Autorenporträt

Harm Pinkster is professor emeritus of Latin (University of Amsterdam). He taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Bologna, Pavia, Venice, Aix-en-Provence, Oxford, and Chicago. He is the founder of the biannual international colloquia on Latin linguistics. His best known linguistic work is his Latin Syntax and Semantics, originally published in Dutch (1984), and then translated (and revised) into German (1988), English (1990), Italian (1990), and Spanish (1995).