Constituent Syntax

Constituent Syntax Synopsis

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Constituent Syntax (Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora) is the third of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. Essentially an extension of Volume 2, Volume 3 concentrates on additional subsentential syntactic phenomena and their long-term evolution from the earliest texts up to the Late Latin period. Included in Volume 3 are detailed treatments of quantification, numerals, possession, and deixis/anaphora. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.

Key features

• first publication to investigates the long-term syntactic history of Latin
• generally accessible to linguists and non-linguists
• theoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological terms
• does not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English