The Oxford Latin Syntax

This second volume of a two-volume work applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. It the first full-scale treatment 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. His books include 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). He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

14: Subordinate clauses: common properties and internal structure
15: Subordinate clauses filling an argument position
16: Subordinate clauses filling a satellite position
17: Subordinate clauses with nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
18: Relative clauses
19: Coordination
20: Comparison
21: Secondary predicates
22: Information structure and extraclausal expressions
23: Word order
24: Discourse