The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek
Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives
Published on 23. September 2021
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-90-04-46752-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 (??, ?????, ???) distribute across the different clause types. False ideas are discarded (e.g., there are no ??? relative clauses, ????? does not take over ??' functions). This essay furthermore teases apart actual neutralization and so-far-unknown subtle distinctions. Who knew that ????? is featured in three different types of appositive clauses? In the interrogative domain, an analysis is given of what licenses ?? to pop in and ??? to pop out. Tackling these topics and more, this essay draws a coherent picture of the wh-clause system, whose basis is the notion of (non)identification.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
613 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-46752-1 (9789004467521)
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Richard Faure (Phd, Sorbonne 2010) is Maitre de conferences (associate professor) at Universite Cote d'Azur. He specializes in Ancient and general linguistics. He published extensively on subordination at the syntax/semantics interface on Greek, but also on Armenian, French, Occitan.
Content
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 ??/????? Form a Pair of Complementary Items
?1?The Uses
?2?The Difference between ?? and ?????
?3?Generalizing: The Notion of Identification
?4?Conclusion
3 Bringing ??? into the Picture
?1?Uses Common to ??? and ?????
?2???? and ????? in Indirect Interrogative Clauses
?3?????? Meaning
?4???? Meaning
?5?Conclusion
Part 2 Marginal Cases
4 The Clash between Definite Terms and ????? as Pragmatic Disagreement
?1?????? Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item
?2?Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ?????]
?3?'Causal' ????? as an Illocutionary Operator
?4?Illocutionary ????? 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 ??? (and ?????) 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 ?? Interrogatives
?1??? Clauses as Interrogatives
?2??? Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates
?3?Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments
?4?Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and ?? 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
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 ??/????? Form a Pair of Complementary Items
?1?The Uses
?2?The Difference between ?? and ?????
?3?Generalizing: The Notion of Identification
?4?Conclusion
3 Bringing ??? into the Picture
?1?Uses Common to ??? and ?????
?2???? and ????? in Indirect Interrogative Clauses
?3?????? Meaning
?4???? Meaning
?5?Conclusion
Part 2 Marginal Cases
4 The Clash between Definite Terms and ????? as Pragmatic Disagreement
?1?????? Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item
?2?Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ?????]
?3?'Causal' ????? as an Illocutionary Operator
?4?Illocutionary ????? 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 ??? (and ?????) 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 ?? Interrogatives
?1??? Clauses as Interrogatives
?2??? Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates
?3?Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments
?4?Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and ?? 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