Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004714984 |
| ISBN10: | 9004714987 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Polysemous Particles in Ancient Greek
A Study with Special Reference to ??? and ??
Series:
The Language of Classical Literature;
39;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 27 March 2025
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Short description:
This book offers (i) an up-to-date theoretical treatment of the concept of pragmatic particles, with a focus on Ancient Greek, and (ii) two detailed case studies providing a new, polysemous analysis of the particles ??? and ??.
Long description:
Anyone reading an Ancient Greek text will notice the abundance of pragmatic particles (e.g. ???, ???, ??, ??, ??, ???, ???, ???), a much-debated and challenging class of expressions. What are their semantic contributions, and how should we account for their notorious polyfunctionality? In this book, Kees Thijs provides a state of the art of modern particle theory, which he then applies to two of the most versatile Greek particles, ??? and ??. Using a diachronically oriented polysemy approach and a large-scale, varied research corpus, Thijs offers a new, unified account that significantly improves on both traditional handbooks (e.g. Denniston) and more recent particle studies.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
Abbreviations, symbols, and translations
1 General introduction
1.1 Setting the scene
1.2 Earlier scholarship
1.3 Data
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Outline of the present study
2 Pragmatic particles
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Preliminaries on linguistic categorization
2.3 Particles
2.4 Pragmatic markers
2.5 Conclusion
3 Outline of the functional spectrum
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Connectives
3.3 Attitudinal-interactional markers
3.4 Focus modifiers
3.5 Intensifiers
3.6 Markers of non-straightforward communication
3.7 Conclusion
4 Polyfunctionality and diachronic change
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Diachronic change
4.3 Homonymy, monosemy, and polysemy
4.4 Methodological reflections
4.5 Conclusion
5 Position and scope of Greek particles
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Greek syntax and word order
5.3 Prepositives
5.4 Postpositives
5.5 Conclusion: the position of particles as linguistic evidence
6 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD;
6.1 Setting the scene
6.2 Earlier accounts
6.3 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD; as an attitudinal-interactional particle
6.4 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD; as a discourse-connective particle
6.5 Conclusion
7 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75;
7.1 Setting the scene
7.2 Earlier accounts
7.3 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as an attitudinal-interactional particle
7.4 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as a discourse-connective particle
7.5 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as a phrasal modifier
7.6 Conclusion
8 General conclusion
8.1 Summary overview
8.2 Suggestions for further research
Appendix A: Quantitative data
Bibliography
Index Locorum
List of tables and figures
Abbreviations, symbols, and translations
1 General introduction
1.1 Setting the scene
1.2 Earlier scholarship
1.3 Data
1.4 Methodology
1.5 Outline of the present study
Part1 Theoretical background
2 Pragmatic particles
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Preliminaries on linguistic categorization
2.3 Particles
2.4 Pragmatic markers
2.5 Conclusion
3 Outline of the functional spectrum
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Connectives
3.3 Attitudinal-interactional markers
3.4 Focus modifiers
3.5 Intensifiers
3.6 Markers of non-straightforward communication
3.7 Conclusion
4 Polyfunctionality and diachronic change
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Diachronic change
4.3 Homonymy, monosemy, and polysemy
4.4 Methodological reflections
4.5 Conclusion
5 Position and scope of Greek particles
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Greek syntax and word order
5.3 Prepositives
5.4 Postpositives
5.5 Conclusion: the position of particles as linguistic evidence
Part2 Case studies
6 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD;
6.1 Setting the scene
6.2 Earlier accounts
6.3 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD; as an attitudinal-interactional particle
6.4 &&&x039C;&&&x1F75;&&&x03BD; as a discourse-connective particle
6.5 Conclusion
7 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75;
7.1 Setting the scene
7.2 Earlier accounts
7.3 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as an attitudinal-interactional particle
7.4 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as a discourse-connective particle
7.5 &&&x0394;&&&x1F75; as a phrasal modifier
7.6 Conclusion
8 General conclusion
8.1 Summary overview
8.2 Suggestions for further research
Appendix A: Quantitative data
Bibliography
Index Locorum