28.3603, Books: The Development of Latin Clause Structure: Danckaert

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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:30:20
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Development of Latin Clause Structure: Danckaert

Title: The Development of Latin Clause Structure 
Subtitle: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-development-of-latin-clause-structure-9780198759522 

Author: Lieven Danckaert

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198759522 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 90.00

Abstract:

This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering
of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and
non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered
with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages only
allow for the head-initial orders VO and AuxV. Lieven Danckaert offers a
detailed, corpus-based description of these two word order alternations,
focusing on their diachronic development in the period from c. 200 BC until
600 AD. The corpus data reveal that some received wisdom needs to be
reconsidered: there is in fact no evidence for any major increase in
productivity of the order VO during the eight centuries under investigation,
and the order AuxV only becomes more frequent in clauses with a modal verb and
an infinitive, not in clauses with a BE-auxiliary and a past participle. The
book also explores a more fundamental question about Latin syntax, namely
whether or not the language is configurational, in the sense that a phrase
structure grammar (with 'higher-order constituents' such as verb phrases) is
needed to describe and analyse Latin word order patterns. Four pieces of
evidence are presented that suggest that Latin is indeed a fully
configurational language, despite its high degree of word order flexibility.
Specifically, it is shown that there is ample evidence for the existence of a
verb phrase constituent. The book thus contributes to the ongoing debate
regarding the status of configurationality as a language universal.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Latin (lat)

Written In: English  (eng)

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