Nominal Apposition in Indo-European: Its Forms and Functions, and Its Evolution in Latin-Romance

ISBN-13: 9783110460162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 430 str.

Brigitte L. M. Bauer

Opis

Nominal apposition the combining of two equivalent nouns has been a neglected topic in linguistics, despite its prominence in syntax and morphology in some languages. This book presents an extensive comparative and diachronic analysis of nominal apposition in Indo-European, examining its occurrence, characteristics and functions in early languages, identifying parallels with similar phenomena, and tracing its evolution in Latin-Romance. "

O autorze

Brigitte Bauer, University of Texas, Austin.