Nominalization in Latin

This book investigates the properties of Latin 'verbal nouns', on the basis of data from a range of text types. Olga Spevak shows that verbal nouns, gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and in part also infinitives, are competing expressions that form a system in which elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Verbal nouns in Latin


• 3: Verbal nouns in Cicero's narrative texts


• 4: Verbal nouns in technical texts


• 5: Competitors of verbal nouns


• 6: Verbal nouns in legal texts


• Conclusions

About the author

Olga Spevak is Assistant Professor of Latin and Greek Philology at the University of Toulouse. Her interests are primarily in the areas of Latin syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with particular focus on word order, the noun phrase, and noun valency. Her publications include Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Benjamins, 2010), and, as editor, Noun Valency (Benjamins, 2014) and Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek (with C. Denizot; Benjamins 2017).

Summary

This book investigates the properties of Latin 'verbal nouns', on the basis of data from a range of text types. Olga Spevak shows that verbal nouns, gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and in part also infinitives, are competing expressions that form a system in which elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Spevak, Olga (Assistant Professor of Latin and Gre Spevak, Spevak Olga
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192866011
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286601-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Historical and comparative linguistics