Lexical consequences of a phonetic law

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. I. Phonology
5. Lachmann's Law in the light of the glottalic theory of Pie consonantism 3
6. Probable substratum features in the expansion of Republican Latin 23
7. Vocalis ante uocalem 35
8. II. Lexical Morphology and Semantics
9. Lexical consequences of a phonetic law 49
10. The structure of the signifié 63
11. Complex lexical units in Latin 75
12. Grammatical-converting and semantically mutating word-formation in the Latin lexicon 93
13. Syntax, morphology and semantics in the structuring of the Latin lexicon, as illustrated in the -lis derivatives 111
14. The lexical system of intersubjective and intrasubjective relationships 129
15. Réflexions sur magnanimus et quelques composés de ce type (structure, sens, portée stylistique) 151
16. Promisi per iocum 163
17. The formation of Latin technical vocabulary with special reference to medicine 187
18. The Latin nominal group in typological perspective 203
19. Adjectif et syntagme nominal 233
20. Structure morpho-sémantique de l'adjectif latin 251
21. The three modifiers of the Latin NP 269
22. The genitive with verbal nouns in Latin 281
23. Reflections on the gerund and gerundive 295
24. Latin noun/gen./adj. serialization and language universals 311
25. Latin prepositional syntax in Indo-European perspective 323
26. IV. Miscellaneous Syntax And Semantics
27. Est-il possible d'attribuer à la phrase nominale un domaine linguistique? 341
28. On the interpretation of generic statements in Latin 349
29. V. Textual Cohesion
30. Word order patterns of excipere in the sense of “to follow after.” 367
31. Nominal anaphora, text, argumentation (from Plautus to Cicero) 381
32. Passive, perspective and textual cohesion 401
33. On the grammatical subject in Late Latin 415
34. Causally related predications and the choice between parataxis and hypotaxis in Latin 427
35. The role of displacement in narrative prose 453
36. Towards a new hermeneutic analysis? Prolegomena to a text-structural analysis of Latin texts, illustrated from Tacitus' Germania 467
37. Index 475