New studies in Latin linguistics : selected papers from the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987 / edited by Robert Coleman.

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INTRODUCTION by Robert Coleman; I. PHONOLOGY; Philip Baldi: Lachmann 's Law in the light of the glottalic theory of PIE consonantism; Haiim Rosen: Probable substratum features in the expansion of Republican Latin: The phonological aspect; José-Luis Moralejo: Vocalis ante uocalem: corripitur an distrahitur?; II. LEXICAL MORPHOLOGY AND SEMANTICS; Alain Christol: Lexical consequences of a phonetic law: (*eye> e) in Latin Verbs; Claude Moussy: The structure of the signifié: the usefulness and limitations of analysis into relevant features (with applications to Latin)

Michèle Fruyt: Complex lexical units in LatinHannah Rosén: Grammatical-converting and semantically mutating word-formation in the Latin Lexicon; Chantal Kircher-Durand: Syntax, morphology and semantics in the structuring of the Latin lexicon, as illustrated in the -lis derivatives; Benjamin Garcla-Hernández: The lexical system of intersubjective and intrasubjective relationships; Léon Nadjo: Réflexions sur magnanimus et quelques composés de ce type (structure, sens, portée stylistique); Françoise Létoublon: Promisi per iocum

David Langslow: The formation of Latin technical vocabulary with special reference to medicineIII. SYNTAX OF THE NOUN PHRASE; Christian Lehmann: The Latin nominal group in typological perspective; Christian Touratier: Adjectif et syntagme nominal; Paulo de Carvalho: Structure morpho-sémantique de l'adjectif latin ou: la présence de l'absent; Marius Lavency: The three modifiers of the Latin NP; M. Esperanza Torrego: The genitive with verbal nouns in Latin: a functional analysis; Elseline Vester: Reflections on the gerund and gerundive

Charles Elerick: Latin noun/gen./adj. serialization and language universalsRobert Coleman: Latin prepositional syntax in Indo-European perspective; IV. MISCELLANEOUS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS; Charles Guiraud: Est-il possible d'attribuer à la phrase nominale un domaine linguistique?; Claudia Casadio and Anna Orlandini: On the interpretation of generic statements in Latin; V. TEXTUAL COHESION; Maria Hoffmann: Word order patterns of excipere in the sense of to follow after -- Huguette Fugier: Nominal anaphora, text, argumentation (from Plautus to Cicero)

Rodie Risselada: Passive, perspective and textual cohesionJoseph Herman: On the grammatical subject in Late Latin; Machtelt Bolkestein: Causally related predications and the choice between parataxis and hypotaxis in Latin; Deborah Pennell Ross: The role of displacement in narrative prose; Ernst Heilig: Towards a new hermeneutic analysis? Prolegomena to a text-structural analysis of Latin texts, illustrated from Tacitus' Germania; INDEX

The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and external syntax of the noun phrase; and the pragmatics of textual cohesion. The papers are descriptive rather than historical in approach, and most of the contributors are Latinists by training. For this reason the volume will be of interest not only for philologists and general linguists but also fo.

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