Polysemous Particles in Ancient Greek
A Study with Special Reference to ??? and ??
Published on 6. March 2025
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-90-04-71498-4 (ISBN)
Description
Anyone reading an Ancient Greek text will notice the abundance of pragmatic particles (e.g. ???, ???, ??, ??, ??, ???, ???, ???), a much-debated and challenging class of expressions. What are their semantic contributions, and how should we account for their notorious polyfunctionality? In this book, Kees Thijs provides a state of the art of modern particle theory, which he then applies to two of the most versatile Greek particles, ??? and ??. Using a diachronically oriented polysemy approach and a large-scale, varied research corpus, Thijs offers a new, unified account that significantly improves on both traditional handbooks (e.g. Denniston) and more recent particle studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
821 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-71498-4 (9789004714984)
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Person
Kees Thijs (PhD 2021) is a lecturer in logic and Ancient Greek at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research is at the crossroads of Ancient Greek, linguistics, and philosophy of language, with a focus on pragmatic particles and Greek word order.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of tables and figures
Abbreviations, symbols, and translations
1 General introduction
?1.1?Setting the scene
?1.2?Earlier scholarship
?1.3?Data
?1.4?Methodology
?1.5?Outline of the present study
Part1 Theoretical background
2 Pragmatic particles
?2.1?Introduction
?2.2?Preliminaries on linguistic categorization
?2.3?Particles
?2.4?Pragmatic markers
?2.5?Conclusion
3 Outline of the functional spectrum
?3.1?Introduction
?3.2?Connectives
?3.3?Attitudinal-interactional markers
?3.4?Focus modifiers
?3.5?Intensifiers
?3.6?Markers of non-straightforward communication
?3.7?Conclusion
4 Polyfunctionality and diachronic change
?4.1?Introduction
?4.2?Diachronic change
?4.3?Homonymy, monosemy, and polysemy
?4.4?Methodological reflections
?4.5?Conclusion
5 Position and scope of Greek particles
?5.1?Introduction
?5.2?Greek syntax and word order
?5.3?Prepositives
?5.4?Postpositives
?5.5?Conclusion: the position of particles as linguistic evidence
Part2 Case studies
6 ???
?6.1?Setting the scene
?6.2?Earlier accounts
?6.3???? as an attitudinal-interactional particle
?6.4???? as a discourse-connective particle
?6.5?Conclusion
7 ??
?7.1?Setting the scene
?7.2?Earlier accounts
?7.3??? as an attitudinal-interactional particle
?7.4??? as a discourse-connective particle
?7.5??? as a phrasal modifier
?7.6?Conclusion
8 General conclusion
?8.1?Summary overview
?8.2?Suggestions for further research
Appendix A: Quantitative data
Bibliography
Index Locorum
List of tables and figures
Abbreviations, symbols, and translations
1 General introduction
?1.1?Setting the scene
?1.2?Earlier scholarship
?1.3?Data
?1.4?Methodology
?1.5?Outline of the present study
Part1 Theoretical background
2 Pragmatic particles
?2.1?Introduction
?2.2?Preliminaries on linguistic categorization
?2.3?Particles
?2.4?Pragmatic markers
?2.5?Conclusion
3 Outline of the functional spectrum
?3.1?Introduction
?3.2?Connectives
?3.3?Attitudinal-interactional markers
?3.4?Focus modifiers
?3.5?Intensifiers
?3.6?Markers of non-straightforward communication
?3.7?Conclusion
4 Polyfunctionality and diachronic change
?4.1?Introduction
?4.2?Diachronic change
?4.3?Homonymy, monosemy, and polysemy
?4.4?Methodological reflections
?4.5?Conclusion
5 Position and scope of Greek particles
?5.1?Introduction
?5.2?Greek syntax and word order
?5.3?Prepositives
?5.4?Postpositives
?5.5?Conclusion: the position of particles as linguistic evidence
Part2 Case studies
6 ???
?6.1?Setting the scene
?6.2?Earlier accounts
?6.3???? as an attitudinal-interactional particle
?6.4???? as a discourse-connective particle
?6.5?Conclusion
7 ??
?7.1?Setting the scene
?7.2?Earlier accounts
?7.3??? as an attitudinal-interactional particle
?7.4??? as a discourse-connective particle
?7.5??? as a phrasal modifier
?7.6?Conclusion
8 General conclusion
?8.1?Summary overview
?8.2?Suggestions for further research
Appendix A: Quantitative data
Bibliography
Index Locorum