The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek : Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives /

The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek : Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives /

Adapting tools recently developed in general linguistics and dwelling on a solid corpus study, this book offers the first comprehensive view on Classical Greek wh -clauses since Monteil (1963) and scrutinizes how wh -items (ὅς, ὅστις, τίς) distribute across the different clause types. False ideas ar...

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Main Author: Faure, Richard (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.
The Language of Classical Literature ; 34.

Subjects:

Greek & Latin Linguistics.
Greek language > Exclamations.
Greek language > Interrogative.
Greek language > Relative clauses.
Greek language > Syntax.
Indo-European Languages.
Morphology & Syntax.

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Call Number: PA379

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • 1 The Landscape of Wh -clauses in Classical Greek
  • 1 Three Paradigms of wh -items in Classical Greek
  • 2 The Nature of wh -items
  • 3 What This Book Is Not About
  • 4 About the Chapters of This Book
  • Part 1 The Framework
  • 2 Ὅς/ὅστις Form a Pair of Complementary Items
  • 1 The Uses
  • 2 The Difference between ὅς and ὅστις
  • 3 Generalizing: The Notion of Identification
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 3 Bringing Τίς into the Picture
  • 1 Uses Common to τίς and ὅστις
  • 2 Τίς and ὅστις in Indirect Interrogative Clauses
  • 3 Ὅστις Meaning
  • 4 Τίς Meaning
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Part 2 Marginal Cases
  • 4 The Clash between Definite Terms and Ὅστις as Pragmatic Disagreement
  • 1 Ὅστις Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item
  • 2 Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ὅστις]
  • 3 'Causal' ὅστις as an Illocutionary Operator
  • 4 Illocutionary ὅστις Is Nonidentificational
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 5 Complement Wh -clauses and the Predicates That Embed Them
  • 1 Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in the Landscape of Propositional Attitude Predicates
  • 2 Classification Based on Denotations of Interrogative Clauses
  • 3 The Distribution of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in Classical Greek
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 6 Τίς (and Ὅστις) in Unselected Embedded Questions
  • 1 Wh- vs. Yes/No-Unselected Embedded Questions
  • 2 Previous Approaches to wh-UEQs
  • 3 The Left Periphery of wh-UEQ
  • 4 A Type-Shifting Account for wh-UEQs
  • 5 Concluding Remarks
  • 7 The Origin of Ὅς Interrogatives
  • 1 Ὅς Clauses as Interrogatives
  • 2 Ὅς Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates
  • 3 Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments
  • 4 Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and ὅς Clauses
  • 5 From Relative to Interrogative Clauses
  • 6 Concluding Remarks
  • 8 Wh -exclamative Clauses
  • 1 Classical Greek Data
  • 2 Exclamatives as Presupposed Propositions
  • 3 Focus: What We Learn from Syntax
  • 4 Scalarity, Degree, Widening and Unexpectedness
  • 5 Concluding Remarks
  • 9 The Ups and Downs of Classical Greek Wh -items
  • 1 Identification as the Key Notion
  • 2 Semantic vs. Traditional Syntactic Classification in Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives
  • 3 Three Words of Diachrony
  • 4 Final Word
  • Appendix: Constructions and Classification of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates
  • References
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Notionum et Rerum.