Lieven Danckaert

The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Latin word order patterns, in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs. Lieven Danckaert offers a corpus-based description of these alternations and demonstrates that Latin is a fully configurational language, contrary to received wisdom.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780198759522
• ISBN-10: 0198759525
• Artikelnr.: 47870130

Autorenporträt

Lieven Danckaert is a researcher at CNRS adn the University of Lille 3. He was previously employed at Ghent University, where he obtained his PhD in 2011. His research focuses on Latin syntax, particularly word order and the use of quantitative, corpus-based methods. His work has been published in journals including Lingua and Transactions of the Philological Society, and in several edited volumes. He is the author of Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery (John Benjamins, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Series preface
* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* A note on glossing conventions
* 1: What is at stake: Word order, configurationality, and the
potential for structural ambiguity
* 2: Latin corpus linguistics and the study of language change:
Methods, problems and prospect
* 3: Multiple object positions and how to diagnose them
* 4: VOAux: A typologically rare word order pattern
* 5: Changing EPP parameters: Clause structure in Classical and Late
Latin
* 6: The development of BE-periphrases
* Epilogue. : Variable direction of complementation in the Latin
clause: A synthesis
* Glossary
* References