Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse
Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse

Author: Michel Buijs

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9047406974

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This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach. The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information flow in on-going discourse. The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.

Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek
Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek

Author: S.J. Bakker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-09-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9004182209

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Central in this volume of the 6th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics is the question how cohesion is created in Ancient Greek texts. It discusses the use and function of cohesion devices like pronomina, particles, tense and complements.

Ancient Greek Linguistics
Ancient Greek Linguistics

Author: Felicia Logozzo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 3110551381

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The volume assembles about 50 contributions presented at the Intenational Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held in Rome, March 2015. This Colloquium opened a new series of international conferences that has replaced previous national meetings on this subject. They embrace essential topics of Ancient Greek Linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: particles and their functional uses; phonology; tense, aspect, modality; syntax and thematic roles; lexicon and onomastics; Greek and other languages; speech acts and pragmatics.

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 9004383344

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In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history

Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek

Author: Arjan A. Nijk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-02-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1009050176

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Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer to past events in Classical Greek and beyond. Adopting a cognitive approach to the issue, he argues that the use of the present for preterite depends on the activation of implicit conceptual scenarios in which the gap between the past and the present is bridged. The book is distinguished from previous accounts by its precision in describing these conceptual scenarios, the combination of linguistic theorising with philological and statistical methods, the size of the corpus under investigation and the explicitly cross-linguistic scope. It provides a complete overview of the phenomenon of tense switching in Classical Greek, as well as new theoretical perspectives on deixis and viewpoint, and is important for classicists, narratologists and linguists of every stamp. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti
Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovid's Fasti

Author: Paul Murgatroyd

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9047407229

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This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical etc.), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated).

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

Author: Evert van Emde Boas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 110822945X

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This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and endings. The syntax offers linguistically up-to-date descriptions of such topics as case usage, tense and aspect, voice, subordinate clauses, infinitives and participles. An innovative section on textual coherence treats particles and word order and discusses several sample passages in detail, demonstrating new ways of approaching Greek texts. Throughout the book numerous original examples are provided, all with translations and often with clarifying notes. Clearly laid-out tables, helpful cross-references and full indexes make this essential resource accessible to users of all levels.

Sophocles and the Greek Language
Sophocles and the Greek Language

Author: Albert Rijksbaron

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9047417429

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This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception speech, Homeric intertextuality, the style of the Sophoclean satyr-plays in relation to tragedy and comedy, the relation between the repetition of words and focalization, the language of blindness, the image of ‘fire’, the use of deictic pronouns, the semantics of the middle-passive and of counterfactuals, the historic present and the constitution of the text, the suggestive power of descriptions, speech-acts, and strategies of politeness.

The Language of Literature
The Language of Literature

Author: Rutger Jakob Allan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9004156542

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A collection of papers revealing the boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts.