Classical Sanskrit, “wild trees”, and the properties of free word order languages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The correlation between word order alternations, grammatical agreement and event semantics in Older Egyptian 31
5. The nominal cleft construction in Coptic Egyptian 105
6. Genitive constructions in Coptic 137
7. Left-dislocated possessors in Sumerian 161
8. Complex predicate structure and pluralised events in Akkadian 189
9. VSO and left-conjunct agreement: Biblical Hebrew vs. Modern Hebrew 239
10. IE *weid- as a root with dual subcategorization features in the Homeric poems 265
11. The syntax of Classical Greek infinitive 295
12. Latin object and subject infinitive clauses 339
13. Latin word order in generative perspective: An explanatory proposal within the sentence domain 373
14. Some firm points on Latin word order: The left periphery 429
15. Classical Sanskrit, “wild trees”, and the properties of free word order languages 457
16. A particular coordination structure of Indo-European flavour 495
17. Index 519
18. List of contributors 525