Title: | Left-Dislocation in Latin : Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts |
Author: | Halla-aho, Hilla |
Publisher: | Brill |
Date: | 2018 |
Language: | eng |
ISBN: | 978-90-04-35746-4 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004357464 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/312257 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Description: | This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki. |
Subject (yso): |
linguistics
syntax classical languages Latin literature epigraphy |
Rights: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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