Books by A. M. (Professor of Classics Devine

The first syntax-pragmatics interface for Latin, Pragmatics for Latin offers a detailed philological analysis of Latin information structure and shows how the grammatical and pragmatic meanings of Latin sentences can be computed quite naturally in a single formal semantic derivation.

Semantics for Latin is the first work to apply the discipline of Formal Semantics to the study of Latin grammatical meaning.

Combining the rich documentation of the 19th-century philological tradition with the deeper insights and more powerful analytical tools of late 20th-century theoretical linguistics, the authors develop an original new theory of Latin word order.

This study interprets ancient Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on cross-linguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data. It reconstructs the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing and intonation of Greek speech.