The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and external syntax of the noun phrase; and the pragmatics of textual cohesion. The papers are descriptive rather than historical in approach, and most of the contributors are Latinists by training. For this reason the volume will be of interest not only for philologists and general linguists but also for those working with the Latin language.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction (by Coleman, Robert); 2. I. Phonology; 3. Lachmann's Law in the light of the glottalic theory of Pie consonantism (by Baldi, Philip); 4. Probable substratum features in the expansion of Republican Latin: the phonological aspect (by Rosen, Haiim B.); 5. Vocalis ante uocalem: corripitur an distrahitur? (by Moralejo, Jose-Luis); 6. II. Lexical Morphology and Semantics; 7. Lexical consequences of a phonetic law: (*eye > e) in Latin verbs (by Christol, Alain); 8. The structure of the signifie: the usefulness and limitations of analysis into relevant features (with applications to Latin) (by Moussy, Claude); 9. Complex lexical units in Latin (by Fruyt, Michele); 10. Grammatical-converting and semantically mutating word-formation in the Latin lexicon (by Rosen, Hannah); 11. Syntax, morphology and semantics in the structuring of the Latin lexicon, as illustrated in the -lis derivatives (by Kircher-Durand, Chantal); 12. The lexical system of intersubjective and intrasubjective relationships (by Garcia-Hernandez, Benjamin); 13. Reflexions sur magnanimus et quelques composes de ce type (structure, sens, portee stylistique) (by Nadjo, Leon); 14. Promisi per iocum (by Letoublon, Francoise); 15. The formation of Latin technical vocabulary with special reference to medicine (by Langslow, David R.); 16. The Latin nominal group in typological perspective (by Lehmann, Christian); 17. Adjectif et syntagme nominal (by Touratier, Christian); 18. Structure morpho-semantique de l'adjectif latin: la presence de l' absent. (by Carvalho, Paulo de); 19. The three modifiers of the Latin NP (by Lavency, Marius); 20. The genitive with verbal nouns in Latin: a functional analysis. (by Torrego, Maria Esperanza); 21. Reflections on the gerund and gerundive (by Vester, Elseline); 22. Latin noun/gen./adj. serialization and language universals (by Elerick, Charles); 23. Latin prepositional syntax in Indo-European perspective (by Coleman, Robert); 24. IV. Miscellaneous Syntax And Semantics; 25. Est-il possible d'attribuer a la phrase nominale un domaine linguistique? (by Guiraud, Charles); 26. On the interpretation of generic statements in Latin (by Casadio, Claudia); 27. V. Textual Cohesion; 28. Word order patterns of excipere in the sense of "to follow after." (by Hoffmann, Maria E.); 29. Nominal anaphora, text, argumentation (from Plautus to Cicero) (by Fugier, Huguette); 30. Passive, perspective and textual cohesion (by Risselada, Rodie); 31. On the grammatical subject in Late Latin (by Herman, Joseph); 32. Causally related predications and the choice between parataxis and hypotaxis in Latin (by Bolkestein, A. Machtelt); 33. The role of displacement in narrative prose (by Ross, D. Pennell); 34. Towards a new hermeneutic analysis? Prolegomena to a text-structural analysis of Latin texts, illustrated from Tacitus' Germania (by Heilig, Ernst); 35. Index