Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose
( Studies in Language Companion Series )
Publication series ： Studies in Language Companion Series
Author： Olga Spevak
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9789027288516
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027205841
Subject： H0 Linguistics
Language： ENG
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Description
This book is a substantial and valuable contribution to the growing body of research on Latin word order, and all who work on the topic will need to take account of its findings. It has a firm empirical basis, using the works of Cicero, Caesar and Sallust as its primary corpus of material, but resorting to a subset of this for the investigation of certain grammatical features where analysis of a larger corpus might have been intractable. [...] Spevak has demonstrated the very considerable advances in understanding that can come from a functionalist analysis of Latin word order, and her work deserves serious attention. This reviewer, at least, will have cause to return to it frequently.