The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek : Aspect, Modality and Typology /
We constantly refer to counterfactual events-things that didn't happen but could have-through conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book bre...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2026.
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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ;
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Call Number: Z6207.G7 DE3
- Editorial Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Glosses, abbreviations and transliteration
- Part 1
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Scope and structure of the work
- 1.2 Tense, aspect and actionality in counterfactuality
- 1.3 The pragmatics of counterfactuality
- 1.4 Counterfactuality and polarity reversal
- 1.5 Counterfactuality and modality
- 1.6 Counterfactuality and morphosyntactic distribution
- 1.7 Counterfactual speech acts: towards a functional typology
- 1.8 The diachrony of counterfactual patterns
- 1.9 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals
- 2 Corpus collection for the history of Greek
- 2.1 Corpus analysis and contrastive corpus surveys
- Part 2
- 3 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Ancient Greek ( VIII BCE - IV BCE )
- 3.1 The optative in Indo-European, Archaic Greek and early Indo-European languages
- 3.2 Counterfactual mood and insubordination from Archaic to Classical Greek
- 3.3 The life cycles of counterfactual mood from Archaic to Classical Greek
- 3.4 Diffusion and analogy of the counterfactual indicative
- 3.5 Counterfactuality transfer, subordination and the modal particles in Ancient Greek
- 3.6 The past counterfactuality, habituality and genericity pathway in Ancient Greek
- 3.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Ancient Greek
- 3.8 Archaic Greek counterfactual modal verbs
- 3.9 Classical Greek counterfactual modal verbs, frequency and language ecology
- 3.10 Temporal reference shift and modal paths out of counterfactuality
- 3.11 Analogy and the morphosyntax of counterfactual modal verbs
- 3.12 Avertives in Ancient Greek: aspect, actionality and modality
- 3.13 Summary and looking ahead
- 4 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Postclassical Greek ( III BCE - VI CE )
- 4.1 Measuring the impact of register on counterfactual life cycles
- 4.2 Aspect, temporal reference shift and the counterfactual indicative
- 4.3 Counterfactuals in contact in Post-Classical Greek
- 4.4 Pragmatics, analogy and the alleged loss of the counterfactual modal particle
- 4.5 Reinforcements of the counterfactual indicative in wishes
- 4.6 The life cycles of counterfactual indicatives in high register contexts
- 4.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Postclassical Greek
- 4.8 Avertives in Postclassical Greek: continuity and change
- 4.9 Summary and looking ahead
- 5 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Medieval and Modern Greek ( VII CE -now)
- 5.1 Counterfactuals and avertives in Medieval Greek
- 5.2 Counterfactuals and avertives in Modern Greek
- Part 3
- 6 The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals Cross-linguistically
- 6.1 The life cycles of counterfactuals in the history of Greek
- 6.2 The life cycles of counterfactuals across Indo-European language histories
- 6.3 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Greek Index.