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Author Danckaert, Lieven Jozef Maria.

Title Latin Embedded Clauses : the left periphery.

Publication Info. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages).
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Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 184
Contents Latin Embedded Clauses; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. The phenomenon of 'Left Edge Fronting'; 1.1 The core data; 1.2 Earlier accounts of Latin LEF; 1.3 Two types of LEF; 1.4 LEF in Latin adverbial clauses: A corpus survey; 2. Word order in Latin; 2.1 'Free but not arbitrary': On the flexibility of Latin word order; 2.2 Restrictions on word order permutations; 3. Linear order vs. hierarchical structure; 3.1 A case study: Object positions in Latin; 3.2 Linear order in syntax as a derived notion.
3.3 Conclusion4. Latin as a discourse-configurational language; 4.1 Word order and information structure; 4.2 Latin as a discourse configurational language; 4.3 Round-up; 5. Addendum: Studying word order variation: A crash course in generative syntax; 5.1 Some preliminaries; 5.2 Structure of the clause; 5.3 Movement; 5.4 Conclusion; Chapter 2. The internal syntax of Adverbial Clauses (ACs); 1. Adverbial clauses: The landscape; 1.1 Clausal adjuncts; 1.2 External syntax of ACs; 1.3 Latin ACs: Some key properties; 2. The operator derivation of ACs; 2.1 Temporal ACs as free relatives.
2.2 Conditionals2.3 Possible extensions; 3. Main Clause Phenomena; 3.1 What are Main Clause Phenomena?; 3.2 Explaining the ban on embedded MCP; 4. Two types of ACs; 4.1 Central vs. peripheral ACs; 4.2 External syntax; 4.3 MCP in peripheral ACs; 4.4 Peripheral ACs in Latin; 5. The distribution of the particle quidem in ACs; 5.1 Syntactic distribution of quidem; 5.2 On the interpretation of quidem; 5.3 quidem as a polarity marker; 5.4 Accounting for the MCP-like distribution of quidem; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 3. The left periphery of embedded clauses.
1. The position of subordinating conjunctions with respect to topics and foci1.1 Subordinators in ForceP; 1.2 Subordinators lower than ForceP; 2. Clause typing and the role of ForceP; 2.1 On the position of subordinating conjunctions in the C-system; 2.2 The left periphery of Latin ACs; 2.3 LEF in Latin: A closer look at the data; 3. Corpus study of LEF in Latin ACs; 3.1 Facts and figures; 3.2 A first discussion of the figures; 4. A preview of the upcoming analyses; Chapter 4. The syntax of island pied-piping; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Presentation of the data; 1.2 Cross-linguistic parallels.
1.3 Islands vs. non-islands2. Clausal pied-piping; 2.1 Introduction: On the phenomenon of pied-piping9; 2.2 Clausal/island pied-piping cross-linguistically; 2.3 The syntax of clausal pied-piping; 2.4 Island pied-piping in a wh-in-situ language; 2.5 Two alternative analyses and their problems; 2.6 Discussion: Internal wh-movement and successive cyclicity; 3. A relative/interrogative asymmetry; 3.1 The behaviour of Latin interrogative wh-; 3.2 Asymmetries between relative and interrogative wh-; 3.3 The feature make-up of wh-phrases; 3.4 The derivation of Latin relative Verschränkung.
Note 3.5 Conclusion.
Summary This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the fram.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-360).
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Subject Latin language -- Clauses.
Latin language -- Clauses.
Latin language.
Latin language -- Word order.
Latin language -- Word order.
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Other Form: Print version: Danckaert, Lieven. Latin Embedded Clauses : The left periphery. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2012 9789027255679
ISBN 9789027274885 (electronic book)
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9781280497599
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