LINGUIST List 24.1555
Fri Apr 05 2013
Diss: Latin Subgroup/Syntax/Latin: Popan: 'Nominal Hyperbaton in Latin...'
Editor for this issue: Lili Xia
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Date: 05-Apr-2013
From: Marin Popan <marinpopann
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Subject: Nominal Hyperbaton in Latin: Its building, typology, text building strategy
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Institution: Université de Toulouse
Program: ERSS Universite de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2012
Author: Marin Popan
Dissertation Title: Nominal Hyperbaton in Latin: Its building, typology, text building strategy
Dissertation URL:
http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00782345
Linguistic Field(s):
Syntax
Subject Language(s):
Latin (lat)
Language Family(ies): Latin Subgroup
Dissertation Director:
Olga Spevak
Christian Touratier
Concepcion Cabrillana
Jean Francois Thomas
Dissertation Abstract:
This dissertation, devoted to hyperbaton in Latin, is divided into threechapters. The aim of chapter I is to examine the concept of hyperbatonused by Roman rhetoricians grammarians. It shows that this term isused in two distinct ways. Firstly, hyperbaton in the narrow sensecovers anastrophe and transiectio, i.e. a discontinuous phrase,especially a discontinuous noun phrase. Secondly, Romangrammarians conceive hyperbaton in a broad sense for designatingfive types of inversion of word order. Furthermore, Julian of Toledoadds a type of “long hyperbaton”, i.e. long inserted parentheses. Thefirst part of chapter II provides an overview of reflections abouthyperbaton in philological and linguistic literature. Hyperbaton istraditionally regarded as a stylistic figure; however, Modern studies onthis topic focus on pragmatic implication of the use of discontinuousphrases. The second part of chapter II presents the concept of framingand median field (sequence of inserted words), developed by Germanlinguistics. Chapter III provides a typology of words inserted into adiscontinuous noun phrase formed by a genitive and its head noun.Attention is paid to the order in which inserted elements are linearised.The research is based on a corpus of discontinuous noun phrasescollected mainly in Caesar, Cicero, and Historia Augusta. The medianfield can be formed by various words or groups of words. Examples ofmedian fields with two, three, and more words and their ordering arepresented in synoptic tables.
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