"New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology" is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.

-First publication to investigates the long-term syntactic history of Latin

-Generally accessible to linguists and non-linguists

-Theoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological terms

-Does not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English