Early Greek Relative Clauses

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Oxford University Press, 2015 - Broj stranica: 503
Early Greek Relative Clauses contributes to an old debate currently enjoying a revival: should we expect languages spoken a few thousand years ago, such as Proto-Indo-European, to be less well-equipped than modern languages when it comes to subordinate clauses? Early Greek relative clauses provide a test case for this problem. Early Greek uses several kinds of relative clause, but all these are usually thought to come from one, or at most two, prehistoric types. In a new look at the evidence, this book finds that a rich variety of relative clause types has been in place for a considerable time.

The reconstruction of prehistoric linguistic stages requires detailed work on the individual languages descending from them. A substantial part of the book is therefore devoted to a new look at the relative clause systems found in a wide variety of early Greek texts. It emerges that the same basic system is in use across all these texts. Different kinds of relative clause predominate in different kinds of text, however, because relative clause syntax and semantics interact with the needs of different kinds of text.

Considering material as diverse as the Homeric poems, laws inscribed in stone on the island of Crete, and the philosophical prose of Heraclitus, the discussion remains clear and straightforward as Probert considers the uses and histories of different relative clause types.
 

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Introduction
1
ProtoIndoEuropean Greek and primitive languages the last 150 years
6
Approaches to ProtoIndoEuropean relative clauses
21
What is a relative clause?
55
Definiteness and related concepts
76
Varieties of Greek relative clause
119
Matters of case
162
Forays into early Greek relative clauses in nonepic genres
199
How does Homer choose between τ and ?
315
Homeric relative clauses in direct speech and narrative
327
Cretan inscriptions to 400 bc
350
Against four syntactic relics and for one
392
Conclusions
435
Glossary of technical terms
477
Subject Index
483
Index Locorum
492

Postnominal and inherently maximalizing relative clauses in Homer
242
How does Homer choose between inherently maximalizing constructions?
300

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O autoru (2015)

Philomen Probert is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.

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