Untersuchungen zur Verbalsyntax der Liviusübersetzungen in die romanischen Sprachen: Ein Versuch zur Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in der historisch-vergleichenden Syntax

The study proceeds on the conviction that one of the characteristics of the syntax of a language is the relative frequency with which syntactic constructions occur. 42 translations of the early chapters of Titus Livius' "Ab Urbe condita" into 6 Romance languages from 1323 to the present day are examined from the point of view of the differential incidence of the use of finite and non-finite constructions to express various sentence functions in the languages and epochs under consideration. Th…