Experiential Constructions in Latin

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Experiential Constructions in Latin is written by Chiara Fedriani and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004257837 (ISBN 10) and 9789004257832 (ISBN 13).

This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential constructions, also revisiting the so-called impersonal constructions, and shows how and why such a variation is at the root of diachronic change. The data discussed in this book also show that Latin constitutes an interesting stage within a broader diachronic development, since it retains some ancient Indo-European features that gradually disappeared and went lost in the Romance languages.