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When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by "expressiveness"? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil's Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in similar contexts and with the same stylistic effects. In this view, a rare word order as well as a relevant metrical and syntactical pattern appear to constitute a deviation from the norm stylistically motivated, that can highlight significant words or iconically stress the semantics of a passage. By combining the main notes on style from the Aeneid commentaries and the stylistic readings also applied to modern texts, the author, with a clear approach, systematically discusses the various structures of Latin hexameter - enjambement, synaloepha, hiatus, four-word lines, name-lines, relevant juxtapositions etc. - in terms of "effects", showing how they interact and converge in the text. This introduction to Virgil's expressiveness aims to be an effective tool for a stylistic reading of any Latin hexametric text.

Latin language --- Word order --- Virgil. --- Latin language - Word order --- Virgil. - Aeneis --- Word order. --- Aeneid. --- expressiveness. --- hexameter. --- word order.

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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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Latin language --- Latin (Langue) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Latin literature --- 470 --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Style --- Word order --- Criticism, Textual --- Language Latin --- Conferences - Meetings --- Style. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Congresses --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Latin (langue) --- Pragmatique. --- Ordre des mots --- Latin language - Word order - Congresses --- Latin language - Style --- Latin literature - Criticism, Textual

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This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts: the narratee in the prologues of Sophocles’ Trachiniae and of Euripides, the chronology in Pindar’s Odes, the relation between tense-aspect and Discourse Modes in Thucydides, Xenophon, Vergil and Ovid, the use of aspect in the Law Code of Gortyn, expressions of futurity and the word order of adjectives in Herodotus, and, finally, ancient and modern views on word order. Following an interdisciplinary approach, all contributions aim at bridging the gap between linguistic and literary study of classical texts.

Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Greek language --- Latin language --- Criticism, Textual. --- History and criticism. --- Word order. --- Style. --- Klassieke talen. --- Filologie. --- Criticism, Textual --- History and criticism --- Word order --- Style --- Classical languages --- Classical literature --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Greek literature - Criticism, Textual. --- Latin literature - Criticism, Textual. --- Greek literature - History and criticism. --- Latin literature - History and criticism. --- Greek language - Word order. --- Latin language - Word order. --- Greek language - Style. --- Latin language - Style. --- Grec (langue) --- Latin (langue) --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature latine --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature grecque --- Littérature latine