Bauer B.L.M. Nominal Apposition in Indo-European: Its Forms and Functions, and its Evolution in Latin-Romance

De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 430 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 303). — ISBN 978-3-11-046016-2, 978-3-11-046175-6, 978-3-11-046020-9.Nominal apposition — the combining of two equivalent nouns — has been a neglected topic in linguistics, despite its prominence in syntax and morphology in some languages. This book presents an extensive comparative and diachronic analysis of nominal apposition in Indo-European, examining its occurrence, characteristics and functions in early languages, identifying parallels with similar phenomena elsewhere, and tracing its evolution in Latin-Romance.