
Conditions and Conditionals
An Investigation of Ancient Greek
Gerry Wakker(Author)
jJ.C. Gieben, Uitgeverij (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Leather / fine binding
464 pages
978-90-5063-196-9 (ISBN)
Description
When Protagoras remarks "if you like, let us assume that justice is holy and holiness just", Socrates replies "No, I do not want this 'if you like' or 'if you agree' sort of thing to be put to the proof (-); our statement will be most properly tested if we take away the 'if'" (Plato Protagoras 331c3-d1). This passage may be considered one of the oldest passages reflecting on the pragmatic functions of 'if', and the importance of 'if' in human reasoning. This book develops a linguistic framework to analyse conditionals, for which the apparatus of Functional Grammar provides a basis. Within this framework a detailed analysis is given of conditionals in Ancient Greek, in which syntactic, semantic as well as pragmatic factors are used to explain the multifarious uses of the important but elusive conjunction ei.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1043 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5063-196-9 (9789050631969)
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