Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics

by: de la Villa, J. Striano, A. Verano, R.

Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics
Edited by: Jesús de la Villa , Araceli Striano and Rodrigo Verano

About this book
The grammatical study of the Greek language is the oldest in the Western world, dating back at least to the linguistic reflections of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Ancient Greek texts and testimonies continue to be studied in three main directions: 1. analyzing new texts, not known until now, 2. revising known data from contemporary linguistic perspectives, and 3. proposing new theoretical perspectives from the detailed analysis of Ancient Greek data.

These two volumes contain 46 articles, originally presented at the 10th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in June 2022. They are organized in five major sections, devoted, respectively, to the History of the Greek language: Phonetics and Morphology, Lexicon and Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics and Discourse, and Digital methods of linguistic analysis. As a whole, they constitute an important advance in the description of Ancient Greek, while also providing an overview of the current state of the research on this language and of the main lines along which this study runs. Finally, they remind us of the extraordinary phenomenon of having continuous linguistic data on a language, such as Greek, for over 3,600 years.

Table of contents
frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Figures and Diagrams

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Part I History of the Greek Language, Phonetics, Morphology
Linguistic Variation and the Study of Ancient Greek Dialects

Georgios K. Giannakis
Open Questions in Ancient Greek Phonology: Some New Evidence from Enclitics

Philomen Probert
Post-Nasal Deaspiration in Ancient Greek: Mirage or Reality?

Roberto Batisti
Greek Verbs in -βω: A Survey

Romain Garnier
Action Nouns in -τιζ/-σιζ as Second Members of Nominal Compounds in Greek

Francesco Dedè
The Syntax and Semantics of ([N+V]V) Verbal Compounds in Ancient Greek

Eugenio R. Luján
Σκορακίζω: ?Curse (by Saying ἐζ κόρακαζ)?. About Delocutive Derivation in Ancient Greek and Performative

Françoise Létoublon
Part II Lexicon, Semantics
Nature-based Metaphors as Body-part Terms in Ancient Greek: On καρπόζ ?Wrist? and ἀστράγαλοζ ?Ankle(Bone)?

Iván Andrés-Alba
Grammaticalization of Adverbs in Ancient Greek: The Case of Homeric μάλα

Annamaria Bartolotta
Smells like Metonymy

Homeric κνίση ?steam, savor (of a burnt sacrifice)? and ?caul fat?, with an excursus on κνισόζ ?having an unwanted smell or taste (as a result of overheating)?
Stefan Höfler
Cultural Reconstruction through Linguistic Analysis: The Case of AG ταρχύω and ταριχ∊ύω

Lucio Melazzo
On Hom. ἐπίφρων and πρόφρων in View of Homeric Human Physiology

Castrenze Nigrelli
Analytical Constructions and Synthetic Encoding of Complex Predicates at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Anna Pompei
Part III Syntax 1: Clause
Number Agreement of a Predicate in Singular with Two or More Coordinated Noun Phrases in Nominative in Homer

Emilio Crespo
The Construction of the Verb μιμνήσκομαι in the Homeric Language

Marion Bourgasser
On a Double Case Construction in Ancient Greek: The Whole-Part Construction in Homeric Greek

Paola Dardano
Taking Stock of Greek Support-Verb Constructions: Synchronic and Diachronic Variability in the Documentary Papyri

Victoria Beatrix Fendel
Hyperbaton in Herodotus: A Functional Discourse Grammar Perspective

Cassandra Freiberg
Adverb Placement in Demosthenes? First Philippic

Coulter H. George
Case Attraction in Infinitive Clauses: A Distributive Account

Caio B.A. Geraldes
Part IV Syntax 2: Verb and Modality
Dangling between Diachrony, Register and Atticism: A Language Ecology Approach to Modal Morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek

Ezra la Roi
Information Source and Epistemic Modality in the Classical Usage of ἀνάγκη and ἀναγκαῖον

Martin Masliŝ
The Preverb ἀντι- in Ancient Greek: From Space to Reciprocity

Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers
Part V Syntax 3: Coordination and Subordination
Null-Subject Genitive Absolute and Co-Referentiality in 5th Cent. BCE Ionic and Attic Prose

Claire Le Feuvre
On the Oblique Optative in Ionic and Attic Prose Completive Sentences with ὥζ and ὅτι: Remarks Towards a Comparative Study

Antonio Lillo
Relativization of Syntactic and Semantic Functions in Classical Greek: A Case Study Based on Sophocles? Heptad

María López Romero
Backgrounding, Theticals and Periphrastic τυγχάν∊ιν

Rafael Martínez Vázquez
βούλ∊ι/-∊σθ∊, θέλ∊ιζ/-∊τ∊ Plus Subjunctive in Classical Greek: Subordination or Coordination?

Alex Mazzanti and José Marcos Macedo
Relative Clauses in Septuagint Greek: Some Preliminary Remarks

Paola Mollo and Liana Tronci
Addition Clauses in Ancient Greek

Jesús Polo
Pragmatic and Discursive Functions of Non-Canonical Conditional Sentences

Emilia Ruiz-Yamuza
The Mixed Pattern and the Other Conjunctive Strategies in Herodotus? Greek: An Analysis from a Typological Perspective

Silvia Stopponi
Participle Constructions in Post-Classical Greek: The Example of the “Confessions” of Asia Minor

Araceli Striano and Patricia Varona
Part VI Pragmatics and Discourse
Caesurae, Cola, and Discourse Acts: A Functional Discourse Grammar Approach to Homeric Colometry

Rutger J. Allan
Vocative and ?Terms of Address? in the Odyssey

Monique Bile
The Pragmatics of Rhetorical Questions in Sophocles? Tragedies: An Analysis of Antigone and Electra

Luz Conti
Verbal Impoliteness in Greek Oratory: The Case of οὗτοζ

Raquel Fornieles
From Disjunct to Connective: The Particle οὖν in Herodotus? Histories and its Association with Anaphoric Elements

José Miguel Jiménez Delgado
On the Use of the Interjection ὦ in the Dialogues of the Odyssey: An Analysis of (ὦ) γέρον, (ὦ) γύναι, and (ὦ) ξ∊ῖν∊

Marina Martos Fornieles
Structure and Function in Catalogic Discourse: The Case of Iliadic Androktasíai

Andrea Sánchez i Bernet
Part VII Digital Research
Linguistic Annotation for a Catalog of Ancient Greek Authors and Works

Monica Berti
Formulaic Networks as Prototypical Categories: Combining the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank with the Ancient Greek WordNet for a Pilot Study on the Iliad

Luca Brigada Villa, Andrea Farina and Chiara Zanchi
Linguistic Complexity in Ancient Greek: Sentence Complexity and Digital Treebanks

Nina Čengić and Neven Jovanović
Representing Semantic Roles in Greek Treebanks

Alek Keersmaekers
“Proleptic” Arguments in the Greek Treebanks

Francesco Mambrini
Tongue, Language or Noise? Word Sense Disambiguation in Ancient Greek with Corpus-Based Methods

Wouter Mercelis, Toon Van Hal and Alek Keersmaekers
List of Contributors

Albio Cesare Cassio, Georgios K. Giannakis and Michael L. Weiss
Index Locorum

Index Rerum

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• ISBN-13: 9780367874315 / 978-0-367-87431-5
• ISBN-03: 0367874318 / 0-367-87431-8
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