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Olga Spevak
Toulouse University Jean Jaurès
Word order in Latin: Diachronic and typological considerations
This talk will deal with ‘free’ word order in Latin in comparison with ‘fixed’ word order in modern languages such as French or English. It will show pragmatic rules that are responsible for constituent ordering. Additionally, attention will be paid to diachrony and typology, in particular the shift from S(ubject)V(erb)Object to SOV in Classical Latin and then to SVO in Romance languages.
The noun phrase in Latin: Diachronic and typological considerations
This talk will be devoted to noun phrases in Latin, which allows quite free ordering of modifiers as well as discontinuity, i.e. separation from their head nouns. Flexibility of ordering of modifiers in Latin will be compared with the structure of the noun phrase with a fixed ordering such as French or English. Attention will be paid to the putative shift from G(enitive)N(oun) to N(oun)G(enitive) ordering in diachrony of Latin.
ECLASS:
> Participants will receive a link for an e-class & dropbox.
