Latin Literature
Anke Walter
The second volume of Harm Pinkster's Oxford Latin Syntax is a stunning achievement and an admirably thorough account the ‘complex sentence discourse’. Far from restricting itself to classical prose, work covers texts c. 200 bc c . ad 450, in both poetry prose. Overall, I was struck by good balance that Pinkster maintains between presenting syntax systematic well-structured way leaving enough room for portrayal language as dynamic phenomenon, which frequency predilection certain linguistic constructions keeps changing ‘correctness’ expressions matter time context. Equally salutary are reminders role intonation must have played production reception – what we lose no longer having access it. Throughout, gives due consideration fact it often hard securely classify grammatical but several analyses might be possible. Similarly, where appropriate, importance larger interpretive context understanding classifying its phenomena acknowledged well great monumental quotes wealth examples such wide range texts.
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