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Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents the first systematic description of its constituent order from a pragmatic point of view. Apart from general characteristics of Latin constituent order, it discusses the ordering of the verb and its arguments in declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences, as well as the ordering within noun phrases. It shows that the relationship of a constituent with its surrounding context and the communicative intention of the writer are the most reliable predictors of the order of constituents in a sentence or noun phrase. It differs from recent studies of Latin word order in its scope, its theoretical approach, and its attention to contextual information. The book is intended both for Latinists and for linguists working in the fields of the Romance languages and language typology.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Classical Latin language --- Grammar --- Latin language --- Word order --- Semantics --- Word order. --- Semantics. --- Latin --- ordföljd --- semantik --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- General --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- ordföljd. --- semantik. --- Ordföljd. --- Semantik. --- Latin language - Word order --- Latin language - Semantics

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This article has two objectives. The first is to present an account of valency nouns in Latin. Lyons' typology (1977) envisaging three orders of entities is useful for predicting the number and type of complements used with various nouns. Expansions of all the categories are distinguished: concrete entities, relational nouns, agent nouns, verbal nouns, and nouns expressing qualities. Furthermore, Latin shows interesting phenomena closely related to noun valency, namely nominalization of verbal notions in Early Latin and the construction of the dominant participle. The second objective is to

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Dependency grammar. --- Noun phrase. --- Nominals. --- Verb. --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Nominals. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --Verb. --- Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase. --- Dependency grammar --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Noun phrase --- Nominals --- Verb --- Syntax --- Valence (Linguistics) --- Mathematical linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Syntaxe --- Anaphore (linguistique) --- Philologie latine --- Phonologie --- Morphologie (linguistique) --- Actes de congrès.

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"This book is devoted to verbal nouns, defined as nouns which have a systematic correspondence with a clause structure. This book aims to contribute to the much-debated question of "abstract nouns" in general and "verbal derivatives" in particular by showing that syntactic parameters are useful for a better classification of what are traditionally called nomina actionis. It adopts a descriptive approach and it provides methods and criteria for identifying these nouns, which retain some verbal properties and for distinguishing them from nouns with concrete reference. This distinction is important for a better understanding of Latin texts and for the presentation of these words in dictionaries. This book investigates the use of verbal nouns in various text types: narrative texts and technical treatises (rhetoric, architecture, and legal texts). It shows that verbal nouns, as well as gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and partly also infinitives, are competing expressions with a low "sententiality" that serve, to different extents, to condensate clausal expressions. They form a system, in which the elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary. The fact that Latin does not have a verbal noun available for every verb should not be viewed as a "deficiency", but as a facet of this complex system"

Grammar --- Classical Latin language

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Classical Latin language --- Latin language --- Latin linguistics --- History --- Variation --- Variation. --- Latin language - Congresses