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Pragmatics for Latin: From Syntax to Information Structure

by A. M. Devine , Laurence D. Stephens
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780190939472
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import
  • Publisher Imprint: Paperbackshop UK Import
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: GBP 81.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Latin

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. Pragmatics for Latin provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence and elaborates a syntax-pragmatics interface that formalizes the informational content of the various different word orders. Using a slightly adjusted version of the structured meanings theory, the book shows how the pragmatic meanings matching the different word orders arise naturally and spontaneously out of the compositional process as an integral part of a single semantic derivation covering denotational and informational meaning at one and the same time.

A.M. Devine, Professor of Classics at Stanford University, and Laurence D. Stephens, Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have collaborated on research in Latin and Greek linguistics for many years. They have written numerous articles and books on topics ranging from metrics and prosody to syntax and semantics.

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