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Latin embedded clauses : the left periphery
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ISBN: 9789027255679 9789027274885 9027255679 9027274886 1280497599 9786613592828 9781280497599 Year: 2012 Volume: 184 184 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with formal theoretical analysis. The empirical focus is word order in embedded clauses, with special attention to clauses in which one or more constituents surface to the left of a subordinating conjunction. It is proposed that two such types of left peripheral fronting should be distinguished. The proposed analyses shed light not only on the clausal left periphery, but also on the overall structure of the Latin clause. The study is couched in the fram

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