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Published 2018
Left-dislocation in Republican Latin.

: In the construction known as left-dislocation, an element appears in a fronted position, before the clause to which it belongs, usually introducing the topic of the sentence. Based on a detailed analysis of syntax, information structure and pragmatic organization, this study explores how left-dislocation is used in republican Latin comedy, prose and inscriptions as a device to introduce topics or other pragmatically prominent elements. Taking into consideration especially relative clause syntax and constraints of each text type, Hilla Halla-aho shows that, in the context of early Latin syntax and the evolving standards of the written language, left-dislocation performs similar functions in dramatic dialogue, legal inscriptions and archaic prose.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004357464

Published 2020
A Latin lexicon : an illustrated compendium of Latin words and English derivatives /

: This charming, illustrated compendium of Latin words and English derivatives, includes over 365 words required for Latin GCSE. Key notes on grammar, translations and playful and memorable derivatives accompany each Latin entry, and a glossary of Latin in common usage make this essential for all learners of Latin as well as cruciverbalists.
: Also issued in print: 2020. : 1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations (colour) : GCSE.
Adolescent. : 9781789697636 (PDF ebook) :

Published 1995
Discourse Particles in Latin : A Study of nam, enim, autem, vero and at /

: Due to their extremely elusive nature, particles have long been treated in a stepmotherly way, in grammars of individual languages as well as in theories of language. This study is representative of the recent upsurge of interest in particles, more particularly in particles with a discourse marking function. By offering a detailed account of a number of Latin discourse particles, the study provides more insight into a vitually neglected area of Latin. At the same time it contributes to the theoretical and methodological foundations of current particle research and, more generally, to the development of linguistic models of discourse.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004408999
9789050634472

Published 1988
Senecas Tragödien : sprachliche und stilistische Untersuchungen /

: Includes indexes. : 1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-185). : 9789004328969 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2004
A rhetorical grammar : C. Iulius Romanus, Introduction to the Liber de adverbio, as incorporated in Charisius' Ars Grammatica II. 13 /

: About 280 AD C. Iulius Romanus wrote a large work on Latin grammar. Parts of this work were later incorporated in the Ars grammatica of Flavius Sosipater Charisius. Romanus' Introduction to his list of adverbs is unique because of his approach of the subject. With the help of many rhetorical means he weaves together an intricate argument, which is completely different from the usual treatments of the adverb. This unique character was never noticed previously. The first chapters of this book deal with Charisius and Romanus in general and the Introduction in particular. A new edition with translation and commentary follows, completed by a discussion of the annotations of Cauchius made about 1540 from a manuscript now lost.
: 1 online resource. : Bibliogr. pages 141-145. Index. : 9789047412595 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1998
Latin in Use : Amsterdam Studies in the Pragmatics of Latin /

: Contributions by: A.M. Bolkestein, J.R. de Jong, C.H.M. Kroon, H. Pinkster, R. Risselada
: 1 online resource. : 9789004409033
9789050632973

Published 1972
Studies in Catullan verse : An analysis of word types and patterns in the Polymetra /

: Chronicles the French revolution, from the gathering of the Estates-General, after one-hundred-twenty-five years of silence, to disunity within the Committee of Public Safety, The fall of Robespierre, and the end of the Reign of Terror.
: Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia University, 1968. : 1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-160). : 9789004327337 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1980
Narrative and simile from the Georgics in the Aeneid /

: Excerpts from original texts in Greek or Latin.
Based on the author's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. : 1 online resource (109 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and index. : 9789004327757 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1976
Inlaboratus et facilis : aspects of structure in some letters of Seneca /

: English or Latin. : 1 online resource (182 pages) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-176) and index. : 9789004327474 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
Speech and thought in Latin war narratives : words of warriors /

: In Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives , Suzanne Adema offers linguistic and narratological tools to analyse and interpret narratorial choices in speech and thought representation in Latin narratives. Her approach combines insights from (cognitive) linguistic and narratological theories and has been tested and adjusted through corpus based research (Caesar, Vergil, Sallust). The approach is a useful tool to unveil rhetorical uses of speech and thought representation in Latin war narrative by means of close readings of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum 1 and 7, and Vergil's Aeneid 11 and 12. Focusing on the attitudes of the narrators towards war, Adema provides new insights into these texts and offers linguistic and narratological contributions to literary and historical discussions about the Bellum Gallicum and the Aeneid .
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004347120 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2011
Lateinische Modalpartikeln : nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet und nimirum /

: In den letzten Jahren hat das Interesse an Partikeln, die eine wichtige Rolle in der Interaktion zwischen Sprecher und Adressaten spielen, sehr zugenommen. Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die lateinischen Partikeln nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet und nimirum , die alle anzeigen, wie sicher der Sprecher ist oder sich zeigen will. Der Hauptteil beschäftigt sich mit den Unterschieden zwischen diesen Partikeln. Mit diesem Buch wird das wenig untersuchte Gebiet der lateinischen Modalpartikeln oder 'Commitment Markers' erschlossen mit Hilfe moderner linguistischer Theorien und Analysen vergleichbarer Partikeln in modernen Sprachen und im Lateinischen. Recently there has been growing interest in particles which play an important role in the interaction between speaker and addressee. This book focuses on the Latin particles nempe, quippe, scilicet, videlicet and nimirum , all of which show how certain the speaker is or would like to be thought. In particular the study concentrates on the differences between these words. With this study the scarcely researched field of Latin modal particles or 'commitment markers' is made much clearer using modern linguistic theories and analyses of comparable particles in modern languages and in Latin.
: A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. : 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004214477 : 1380-6068 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2019
Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid : narrative style and structure /

: The narrative style of the Aeneid suggests immediacy and involves the reader, while at the same time both narrator and reader know what the outcomes of the story will be. In 'Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid: Narrative Style and Structure' , Suzanne Adema investigates the role of the Latin tenses in this presentational style. Adema presents a framework to analyze and describe the use of tenses in Latin narrative texts from a linguistic and narratological point of view. The framework concerns the temporal relations between a narrator and the states of affairs in his story on the sentence level, discourse modes on the global text level and narrative progression on the level of narrative and descriptive sequences.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004383258

Published 2003
Cicero's style : a synopsis, followed by selected analytic studies.

: This comprehensive study of Cicero's style discusses differences of literary genres (Ch.1), nuances of style within individual works (Ch.2), and chronological development (Ch.3), followed by an account of fixed elements typical of Cicero's diction (Ch.4). Finally, selected interpretative studies demonstrate the relationship of style and context in the orations, with special regard to literary form and political or moral content (Ch.5). The book concludes with an Epilogue on the De oratore and the culture of speech. Contrary to inveterate prejudices, Cicero does not confine himself to a single (so-called 'Ciceronian') style, but consciously and ably employs the full register of styles. The author points out in what respects a study of his style might be rewarding even today.
: 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : 9789047401971 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
The language of literature : linguistic approaches to classical texts /

: 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 apects 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.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index. : 9789047421801 : 1380-6068 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
The noun phrase in classical Latin prose /

: The internal ordering of Latin noun phrases is very flexible in comparison with modern European languages. Whereas there are a number of studies devoted to the variable placement of modifiers, The Noun Phrase in Classical Latin Prose proposes an entirely new approach: a discussion of the semantic and syntactic properties of both nouns and modifiers. Using recent insights in general linguistics, it argues that not only pragmatic factors but also semantic factors (whether we are dealing with an inherent property, the author's assessment, or a further specification of a referent) are responsible for the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases. Additionally, this book discusses prepositional phrases functioning as modifiers, and appositions, which have received little attention in the literature.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004265684

Published 2002
Theory and Description in Latin Linguistics : Selected Papers from the 11th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics /

: With contributions by R. Amacker, C. Bodelot, P. Carvalho, W. Dressler, G. Haverlin, R. Maltby
: 1 online resource. : 9789004409057
9789050633581

Published 1993
Imperatives and Other Directive Expressions in Latin : A Study in the Pragmatics of a Dead Language /

: As the recent hausse in pragmatic studies shows, linguistic attention is increasingly focussing on aspects of language use. Making use of recent insights developed within speech act theory, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics, this book deals with the various expressions that were used in Latin to per-form so-called directive speech acts, i.e. orders, requests, advice, proposals, sug-gestions, etc. On the basis of a large corpus of comedy, correspondence, and instruction texts the expressions concerned (imperatives, subjunctives, future indicatives, as well as modal expressions and vari-ous other lexical expressions of directivity) are investigated against the background of the verbal interactions in which they typically occur. As regards its contribution to Latin linguistics, the present study adds a number of re-finements to our knowledge of this well-documented lan-guage, for instance with respect to the reference of the subjects of the so-called impera-tive II ending in -to, the conventionalized speech act functions of interrogative quid and quin directives, and the diachronic process of conventionalization of velim requests.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004408975
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