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Zusatztext The Oxford Latin Syntax is an essential new reference for researchers in Latin linguistics, classicists, and university students. Non-specialists are introduced to ideas in theoretical linguistics and to the relevant terminology [and] technical concepts such as autocausative, counterfactual, and negator climbing can be easily understood by those outside the field thanks to the numerous examples with translations and notes. Informationen zum Autor Harm Pinkster is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Bologna, Aix-en-Provence, Penn State, Pavia, Venice, Oxford, and Chicago and is a member of both the Academia Europaea and the British Academy. He is the author of On Latin Adverbs (North-Holland, 1972; reprinted by Amsterdam University Press, 2005), Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins, 1983), and Latin Syntax and Semantics (Routledge, 1990). He is also the co-author of four of the five volumes of a Commentary on Cicero's De Oratore (Winter Verlag, 1981-1996). Klappentext This book applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale work of its kind in English, and contains extensive examples from literary and non-literary sources including Plautus and Cicero. Zusammenfassung This book applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale work of its kind in English, and contains extensive examples from literary and non-literary sources including Plautus and Cicero. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Basic grammatical concepts 3: Latin word classes and inflectional categories 4: Verb frames 5: Active/passive, reflexivity, and intransitivization 6: Sentence type and illocutionary force 7: The semantic values of the Latin tenses and moods 8: Negation 9: Syntactic functions of arguments and the categories of constituents that may fulfil them 10: Satellites 11: The noun phrase 12: Cases and prepositions 13: Agreement References Index ...
