Pragmatics for Latin

Pragmatics for Latin

by A. M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/02/2019

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Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. Pragmatics for Latin provides a descriptive analysis of Latin information structure based on detailed philological evidence and elaborates a syntax-pragmatics interface that formalizes the informational content of the various different word orders. Using a slightly adjusted version of the structured meanings theory, the book shows how the pragmatic meanings matching the different word orders arise naturally and spontaneously out of the compositional process as an integral part of a single semantic derivation covering denotational and informational meaning at one and the same time.

ISBN:
9780190939496
9780190939496
Category:
Classical history / classical civilisation
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-02-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

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