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Linguistics and Formulas in Homer : Scalarity and the Description of the Particle Per.
The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1988.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- LINGUISTICS AND FORMULAS IN HOMER; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.0 Aims of the investigation; 1.1 Per in Homer and after; 1.2 Facts from the data-base; 1.3 Per in Greek linguistics; 1.3.1 Emphasis; 1.3.2 Concession and strengthening; 133 Fraenkel: ""per heisst 'auch""'; 1.3.4 Etymology and diachrony; 1.4 Categories and prototypes; 1.5 Linguistics and formulas in Homer; NOTESTO CHAPTER 1.; 2. THE LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND: SCALARITY; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Scales; 2.1.1 Scalarity: introductory; 2.1.2 Superlatives: scalar and attributive.
- 2.1.3 The non-referentiality of scalar superlatives2.1.4 Irrealis modality; 2.2 Scalarity and referentiality; 2.2.1 Attributive and referential superlatives; 2.2.2 Intension and extension; 2.2.3 Scalarity and extensional terms; 2.3. Focus particles and focus contexts; 2.3.1 Even as a focus particle; 2.3.1.1 Conventional implicature and the meaning of even; 2.3.1.2 Elocution and the use of even; 2.3.1.3 Focus and scope; 2.3.1.4 Scope dependence and scope independence; 2.3.1.5 Scope ambiguity; 2.3.1.6 Even if: concession and concessive conditionals; 2.3.2 Types of focus context.
- 2.4 Negative and positive polarity2.4.1 Positive polarity items; 2.4.2 Negative polarity items and scale reversal; NOTESTO CHAPTER 2.; 3. SCALARITY AND THE PARTICLE PER; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Intensional terms; 3.1.1 Scalar superlatives; 3.1.2 Scalar superlatives and the etymology of per; 3.1.3 Epic te and generic modality; 3.1.4 A remark on diachrony; 3.2 Extensional terms; 3.2.1 The intension of focus constituents; 3.2.2 Superlativeness, comparativeness and the illocution of even; 3.2.3 The concessive relative clause; 3.2.4 Scalar expressions and the Homeric narrator.
- 3.3 Scalarity and comparatives3.4 Negative polar scalarity; 3.4.1 Declarative sentences; 3.4.2 Non-assertive contexts and negative polarity; 3.4.3 Scalar superlatives and negative polarity; 3.4.4 The strengthening of negation; 3.5 Scalarity in wishes and commands; 3.5.1 Imperative and optative sentences; 3.5.2 Inclusiveness and exclusiveness; 3.5.3 Scales of desirability and acceptability; 3.5.4 Per, ge and exclusion; 3.5.5 The diachronic aspect of per in wishes; 3.6 Some unclassifiable instances; NOTES TO CHAPTER 3.; 4. PARTICIPLES I: LINGUISTICS; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 On participles.
- 4.1.1 Kinds of adverbial relation4.1.2 Syntactic independence and modal autonomy; 4.2 From scalarity to concession; 4.2.1 The intension of circumstances; 4.2.2 Diachronic aspects of kai hôs; 4.2.3 Syntactic intermezzo: correlation and apposition; 4.3 The concessive participial phrase; 4.3.1 The prototypical properties of 'participle + per'; 4.3.2 Loss of superlativeness; 4.3.3 Dependent participles; 4.3.4 Modally embedded participles; 4.4 From linguistics to the formula; 4.4.1 'Participle + per' and generic modality; 4.4.2 Kai, mala and strengthening; NOTES TO CHAPTER 4.