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Date: 25-Oct-2011 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology: Baldi, Cuzzolin (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
Series Title: rends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 180/4
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Editor: Philip Baldi
Editor: Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110253412 Pages: 926 Price: Europe EURO 159.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110253405 Pages: 926 Price: Europe EURO 159.95
"New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology" is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. 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.
-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