Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(1):109-115 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.008
Perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase et ordre linéaire dans les textes latins tardifsFrench
- Université de Debrecen
Functional perspective of the sentence and linear order in late Latin texts
Syntax has a double aspect : the structures manifesting the logico-semantic relationships within the sentence and the means expressing its communicative perspective limit each other mutually. These two sets of rules are linked also in the historical change of the language. My paper presents briefly the modifications of Latin word order, from the classical period to Proto-Romance, and shows how word-ordering rules become first looser and then more and more bound at the beginning of the Middle Ages. At the same time, functional sentence perspective will realize itself in the frame of a small number of fixed sentence types.
Keywords: Late Latin; Latin Word Order; Historical Syntax
Published: June 11, 2012 Show citation
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