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Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Gareth Williams, Department of Classics, Columbia University, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., 617 Hamilton Hall, MC 2861, New York, NY 10027; email: [email protected].
Anyone who has explored recent literature on Latin syntax has surely encountered the name of the Amsterdam Latinist Harm Pinkster, one of the pioneers of the movement treating Latin as a functional system. The book under review is the first of two volumes that will offer a systematic account of the way Classical Latin functions based upon observations Pinkster has made for more than forty years. The aim is to replace the synchronic reference grammar of R. Kühner and C. Stegmann (Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache, 2. Teil: Satzlehre, 2 vols., 2nd ed. [Hanover 1912-1914]). The chronological range is from 240 b.c. to a.d. 600, though some interesting observations are made about the way Romance phenomena develop out of Late Latin (for example, 1146, 1242).
Although the subject matter is the same as the first volume of Kühner-Stegmann, the...