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Bezig met laden... Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics)door David M. Goldstein
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At first, it seems that the title of this book is too broad: how can a discussion of second-position words in Herodotus encompass any significant amount of Greek syntax? But in fact that’s exactly what happens: in the course of exploring Wackernagel’s Law, Goldstein manages to make all sorts of useful observations about word order, clause structure, and sentence structure in 5th-century Greek prose. As Goldstein puts it, his goal is “the demonstration of the value of clitics as diagnostics for syntactic and prosodic structure” (p. 294). All of the examples are transliterated, translated, and furnished with morpheme-level glosses, so the book will be accessible not only to classicists but to linguists in other areas. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)
In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus , David Goldstein offers the first theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the long-standing belief that Greek word order is ?free ? or beyond the reach of systematic analysis. On the basis of Herodotus ? Histories, he demonstrates that there are in fact systematic correspondences between clause structure and meaning. Crucial to this new model of the Greek clause is Wackernagel ?s Law, the generalization that enclitics and postpositives occur in ?second position, ? as these classes of words provide a stable anchor for analyzing sentence structure. The results of this work not only restore word order as an interpretive dimension of Greek texts, but also provide a framework for the investigation of other areas of syntax in Greek, as well as archaic Indo-European more broadly. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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