Rövid leírás:

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 ??.

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Hosszú leírás:

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.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

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

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

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