Attributive prepositional phrases in Latin prose
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David B. Wharton, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: I will present data that touch upon the previous, intuitive estimates concerning the relative frequency, and the contexts of occurrence, of APPs in Latin prose, using as my sample texts prose authors ranging diachronically from Cato to Tacitus. These data not only shed some light on certain diachronic changes in the use of APPs, but also, while generally confirming earlier opinions on the pragmatics of APPs, expand our knowledge of the range of contexts in which Latin authors tend to place APPs. Finally, I will argue that the pragmatic conditions surrounding the use of APPs discussed here are explicable by means of a single pragmatic principle.
Attributive prepositional phrases in Latin prose
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- Publication
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, edited by Friedrich Heberlein, Heidelberg, 1996, pp. 165-175.
- Language: English
- Date: 1996
- Keywords
- Latin, attribute prepositional phrases, pragmatics