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New perspectives on historical Latin syntax. Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology. Volume 4

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 ex...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Colección:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 180/4
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  • Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Epilegomena; 1. Retrospective; 2. Volume 4; Adverbial subordination: Introductory overview; 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of subordination: Adverbial phrases and studies of relations; 3. Treatment of adverbial clauses; 3.1. Purpose and result; 3.2. Conditionals and concessives; 3.3. Causals; 3.4. Temporals; 3.5. Comparatives; Purpose and result clauses; 1. Introduction: Clarification of previous concepts and methodologies; 2. Function and possible syntactic structures; 2.1. Vt + subjunctive; 2.2. Non-finite forms; 2.3. Relative connector-clause.
  • 2.3.1. Generic relative in purpose clauses2.3.2. Quo; 2.3.3. The relative pronoun as an introductory element for result clauses; 3. The semantic level; 3.1. Characterizing semantic features; 3.2. Analysis of the characterizing features; 3.2.1. Possibility and Factuality; 3.2.2. Control, intentionality, animacy, and prospectivity; 3.2.3. The semantic value of the governing verb; 3.3. Some related semantic relations; 3.3.1. 'Conditionals'; 3.3.2. Comparative-Modal clauses; 3.3.3. Causal clauses; 3.4. Continuum in/between semantic relations; 3.5. Recapitulation of semantic features.
  • 4. The syntactic level4.1. Syntactic status; 4.2. Analysis of (formal) features with syntactic implications; 4.2.1. Correlation; 4.2.2. First element of the correlation; 4.2.3. Introductory element; 4.2.4. Nominalization; 4.2.5. Polarity; 4.2.6. Verb tense; 4.3. The syntactic function and the level of integration; References; Conditionals and concessives; 1. Conditionals; 1.1. Preliminary remarks; 1.1.1. Paratactic conditionals; 1.1.2. The origin of conditional clauses; 1.1.3. Condensed conditions; 1.2. Types of conditional clauses; 1.2.1. The first type: Objectivity.
  • 1.2.2. The second type: Possibility1.2.3. The third type: Unreality; 1.3. Some historical considerations; 1.4. Conditional perfection; 1.4.1. Necessary and sufficient conditions; 1.5. Exclusive nisi and exceptive nisi; 1.5.1. Exclusive nisi; 1.5.2. Exceptive nisi; 1.5.3. Nisi and si non; 1.5.4. Other negative conditional conjunctions: ni, si minus, sin; 1.6. Speech act conditions; 1.7. Complex conditional connectives; 1.7.1. Speech act conditions introduced by si modo; 1.7.2. Si modo as a true condition; 1.7.3. Si tamen; 1.7.4. Si quidem; 1.8. The relationship between condition and cause.
  • 1.9. Epistemic conditionals2. Concessive clauses; 2.1. Preliminary remarks; 2.2. True concessives; 2.2.1. Quamquam; 2.2.2. Etsi; 2.2.3. Tametsi; 2.2.4. Tamenetsi; 2.3. The rectifying function of quamquam, etsi, and tametsi; 2.4. Concessive conditionals; 2.4.1. Quamuis; 2.4.2. Etiamsi (etiam si); 2.5. Contextual concessivity; 2.5.1. Si-clauses; 2.5.2. The exclusive disjunction siue ... siue 'whether ... or not'; 2.5.3. The type quisquis est 'whoever it may be'; 2.5.4. Cum-clauses; 2.5.5. Vt-clauses; 2.6. Concession in paratactic and coordinate structures.