Oxford Latin Syntax

This book applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale work of its kind in English, and contains extensive examples from literary and non-literary sources including Plautus and Cicero.

Harm Pinkster is Emeritus Professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. He has held visiting professorships at the universities of Bologna, Aix-en-Provence, Penn State, Pavia, Venice, Oxford, and Chicago and is a member of both the Academia Europaea and the British Academy. He is the author of On Latin Adverbs (North-Holland, 1972; reprinted by Amsterdam University Press, 2005), Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins, 1983), and Latin Syntax and Semantics (Routledge, 1990). He is also the co-author of four of the five volumes of a Commentary on Cicero's De Oratore (Winter Verlag, 1981-1996).

1: Introduction
2: Basic grammatical concepts
3: Latin word classes and inflectional categories
4: Verb frames
5: Active/passive, reflexivity, and intransitivization
6: Sentence type and illocutionary force
7: The semantic values of the Latin tenses and moods
8: Negation
9: Syntactic functions of arguments and the categories of constituents that may fulfil them
10: Satellites
11: The noun phrase
12: Cases and prepositions
13: Agreement
References
Index