Conditions and Conditionals : An Investigation of Ancient Greek /

Conditions and Conditionals : An Investigation of Ancient Greek /

When Protagoras remarks "if you like, let us assume that justice is holy and holiness just", Socrates replies "No, I do not want this 'if you like' or 'if you agree' sort of thing to be put to the proof (-); our statement will be most properly tested if we take awa...

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Main Author: Wakker, Gerry (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1994.

Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology ; 3.
Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology Online, ISBN: 9789004419025.

Subjects:

Greek language > Conjunctions.
Greek language > Grammar.

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Call Number: PA379

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Conditional clauses in general: state of research
  • Theoretical preliminaries for a linguistic description of conditionals in Ancient Greek
  • Predicational conditionals and temporals
  • Propositional and illocutionary conditionals
  • Some peculiar usages of conditionals
  • The function of particles in εἰ-clauses
  • Other usages of εἰ; the relationship between all types of εἰ-clause
  • Overview
  • Bibliography
  • Index of terms
  • Index of Greek words
  • Index locorum.