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Pragmatics for Latin: From Syntax to Information Structure

Pragmatics for Latin: From Syntax to Information Structure

Devine, A. M.
Stephens, Laurence D.

Hardcover

Latin

ISBN10: 0190939478
ISBN13: 9780190939472
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 27 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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