Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel’s Law in Herodotus

348 Pages·2015·1.63 MB·English

by  David Goldstein

ClassicalGreekSyntax
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Classical Greek Syntax
Wackernagel’sLawinHerodotus
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Contents
Preface xi
ListofTables xii
Abbreviations xiii
TransliterationScheme xvi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Dionysius’Rut 1
1.2 WhyareSecond-PositionCliticsInteresting? 2
1.3 Wackernagel’sLaw:ADescriptiveGeneralization 4
1.4 TheCliticLexiconinAncientGreek 6
1.5 OverviewofClaims 9
part 1
Foundations
2 GreekSyntaxandSurfaceWordOrder 17
2.1 ClauseStructure 17
2.2 TheAbsenceofaVerbPhrase 20
2.3 AlternativeSemantics 27
2.4 TheQuestionunderDiscussionFramework 29
2.5 GreekasaDiscourse-ConfigurationalLanguage 35
2.6 MonotonicFocusintheGreekClause 38
2.7 SummingUp 42
3 TheProsodyofGreekClitics 44
3.1 TheProsodicHierarchy 44
3.2 StrayAdjunction 47
3.3 CliticIncorporationinGreek 49
3.3.1Porson’sBridge 52
3.3.2SecondaryAccentuation 53
3.3.3EvanescentHighTones 56
3.3.4LullingandAntihomophony 57
3.3.5TonalSpreading 59
3.4 CliticPolarity 60
3.4.1ResolutionBridges 61
3.4.2Porson’sBridge 64
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3.4.3Post-CaesuralCliticPlacement 65
3.4.4InscriptionalEvidence 67
3.5 GreekClausalClitics:2W 68
3.6 FunctionWordsasHostsofClausalClitics 75
3.7 BeyondClausalClitics 80
3.8 SummingUp 84
4 TheSyntaxofClitics 85
4.1 CliticDeficiencies 86
4.2 CliticDomainsandClusters 86
4.3 OrderingDeviations 89
4.4 ScopeandCliticDistribution 91
4.4.1ModalParticleandDomain-Widener 92
4.4.2Narrow-ScopeOperators 96
4.4.3Wide-ScopeAdverbials 106
4.5 Head-AdjacentDatives 113
4.6 SummingUp 118
part 2
TheLeftPeriphery
5 Topicalization 121
5.1 ContrastiveTopics 123
5.2 ATypologyofContrastiveTopics 125
5.2.1EvokedQUD 126
5.2.2PartialTopic 132
5.2.3EntailedQUD 134
5.2.4EntailedQUDversusHighAdverbials 136
5.2.5VerbPreposing 138
5.3 QUDTermination 140
5.4 LicensingSubjects 144
5.4.1Discourse-NewSubjects 144
5.4.2SubjectSwitch 149
5.5 Syntax 165
5.6 SummingUp 172
6 FocusPreposing 174
6.1 MonotonicandNon-MonotonicFocus 176
6.1.1CounterassertiveFocus 177
contents ix
6.1.2Counter-expectationalFocus 180
6.1.3UnclassifiedExamples 187
6.2 VerbPreposing 193
6.3 EmphaticNegation 196
6.4 InterrogativeClefts 200
6.5 MultiplePreposing 204
6.6 Syntax 209
6.7 SummingUp 216
part 3
ClauseCombining
7 Participles 221
7.1 ParticipialClauses 226
7.2 VP-ParticipialPhrases 234
7.3 FurtherEvidencefromNegationandModality 241
7.4 SupplementaryParticiples 247
7.5 GenitivesAbsolute 249
7.6 ParticipialChaining 251
7.7 ProblematicCases 257
7.8 SummingUp 259
8 InfinitiveComplements 260
8.1 ControlPredicates 263
8.2 RaisingPredicates 268
8.3 InfinitiveClauses 272
8.4 EmbeddedVP-InfinitivesversusEmbeddedS-Infinitives 281
8.5 ProblematicExamples 285
8.6 SummingUp 289
9 ConclusionandProspects 290
9.1 OpenQuestions 290
9.2 NewVistas 292
Bibliography 295
IndexLocorum 325
GeneralIndex 330