Pragmatics for Latin : From Syntax to Information Structure
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0190939478
ISBN-13
9780190939472
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 21st, 2019
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 24.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Semantics & pragmaticsGrammar, syntax & morphology
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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.
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.
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