The first syntax-pragmatics interface for Latin, Pragmatics for Latin offers a detailed philological analysis of Latin information structure and shows how the grammatical and pragmatic meanings of Latin sentences can be computed quite naturally in a single formal semantic derivation.
The first syntax-pragmatics interface for Latin, Pragmatics for Latin offers a detailed philological analysis of Latin information structure and shows how the grammatical and pragmatic meanings of Latin sentences can be computed quite naturally in a single formal semantic derivation.
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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Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Broad Focus 2. Narrow Focus 3. Association with Focus 4. Topics, Scrambling, and Tails 5. Nominals Glossary Symbols Bibliography Index