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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi EARLY GREEK RELATIVE CLAUSES OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi Early Greek Relative Clauses PHILOMEN PROBERT 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #PhilomenProbert2015 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2015 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014945172 ISBN 978–0–19–871382–1 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi For my relatives OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi Acknowledgements AhighpointofthephilologicalweekinOxfordistheComparativePhilology GraduateSeminar,andtheideaforthisbookisduetoaphilologyseminaron relativeclausesin2004.Ilearntahugeamount,havehadfunformanyyears as a result, and would like to thank my colleagues and students for making philology seminars what they are. For the seminar on relative clauses I owe specialthankstoRichardAshdowne,PeterBarber,ArielDiertani,JanFellerer, PanagiotisFilos,MaryMacRobert,JohnPenney,andElizabethTucker. IowetheopportunitytobeginseriousworkonthisbooktoaFellowshipat Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in 2006–7. I am extremely gratefultotheDirectorandSeniorFellowsoftheCenterfortheopportunityto begin a new project, to all the staff forproviding ideal conditions, and to the UniversityofOxfordforthesabbaticalleavewhichallowedmetotakeupthis opportunity.Iamequallygratefulforthechancetocompletethisbook,which Iowe to afurtherterm of sabbaticalleave in 2011,and anine-monthBritish AcademyMid-CareerFellowshipin2012. TheidealconditionsattheCenterforHellenicStudiesincludedawonderful groupoffellowFellows,whoprovidedconstantlygoodcompanyaswellasthe answerstoendlessquestions.Specialthanksforhelpwithrelativeclausesare due to Polly Low and Felix Budelmann. I wanted to include inscriptional materialsinmystudy,buthavingdonemostofmypreviousworkonancient Greek accents (conspicuous by their absence from inscriptions) I had little ideahowtogoaboutthis.Pollygavemeanepigraphytutorialonourfirstday and responded with constant generosity to my questions thereafter. The treatment of Sappho’s φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν, ὄττις... (section 5.6) is inspired by discussions with Felix. Felix has also kindly shared with mepartoftheeditionandcommentaryheispreparingonselectionsofGreek lyricpoetry.AmongthestaffoftheCenter,Iparticularlyoftenknockedonthe doorof ErikaBainbridge, thelibrarianincharge ofinterlibraryloans.Owing tohereffortsIwasabletoreadmanynineteenth-centurydissertationswhich werenotavailableinOxfordandwouldhavebeenverydifficulttoacquireby interlibraryloanfromtheUK. OneofthethingsIlearntduringthisyearwashowmuchIstillhadtolearn. Iamindebtedtomanypeoplewhohavehelpedmetoplugsomeofthegapsin myknowledge.Itisdifficulttothinkofaphilologyseminarwhichhasnot,in some way, left its mark on this book, but particular thanks are due to the participants in a seminar on definiteness in 2009, and especially Paul Elbourne, Jan Fellerer, Steven Kaye, John Lowe, Mary MacRobert, Florencia Nelli,JohnPenney,andAndreasWilli. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi viii Acknowledgements I owe a great debt to two semanticists, Márta Abrusán and Paul Elbourne. WhenIwokeuptotheneedtolearnsomebasicsemanticsMártawelcomedme toherclass,waspatientwithmyquestions,andpointedmeinthedirectionof works without whichthis bookwould havebeenvery different. Paul has been extremely generous in explaining definiteness and related concepts to me, on multipleoccasions,withpatientanswerstomyignorantquestions.Hisdetailed criticism of drafts of chapters 4 and 5 has greatly improved not only these chapters,butthewholebook.Ifmyinformalaccountofdefinitenesslooksmore Fregeanthananythingelse,andifIthink‘situations’areaquiteusefulconcept, this is not because I really claim the competence to decide between different approaches;butagenerousteacher’sviewsruboffonagratefulpupil.Neither MártanorPaulis,ofcourse,toblameforanyerrorsthatresultfrommylimited understandingoftheirfield,orfromanymisplacedattemptstosimplify. Sandra Paoli has given me the benefit of careful comments on chapter 6 fromasyntactician’sperspective,andMaryDalrympletookthetimetolookat Homer’s entire output of οἷος-clauses with me. Both have pointed me in the direction of ideas and bibliography which have substantially improved the book.ElizabethTuckerreadchapter3andgavemevaluableadviceonSanskrit and Avestan matters. Jack Kroll alerted me to the lead tablet of which he is preparing a new edition; he has been very generous in sharing his work inadvanceofpublication,andindiscussingthefragmentarysentence-opening thatparticularlyinterestsme.Iamgratefultomanypeoplefortheanswersto questions,andforcopiesofworksIhadnotfoundornotbeenabletoobtain. These people include Jim Benson, Jan Fellerer, Dag Haug, Rachel Hendery, Paul Hirschbühler, Alan Johnston, Allison Kirk, Masato Kobayashi, David Langslow,Anikó Lipták, MaryMacRobert,WolfgangdeMelo, RobinMeyer, Anna Morpurgo Davies, Peter Sells, Katrin Stelter, Alessandro Vatri, Martin West,StephanieWest,andIlyaYakubovich.Twoanonymousreadersforthe press made perceptive comments which have improved the book; the choc- olateeggisforthem. Ihaveenjoyedvaluableopportunitiestotestmyideasaboutrelativeclauses at seminars at the universities of Cambridge, Exeter, London, Oxford, Penn- sylvania, and Reading; Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies; the conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses (Cambridge, 2007); the Ancient World Breakfast Club at Godolphin and Latymer School; andtheUCLAIndo-EuropeanConferencein2013. ThelibrariansoftheOldBodleianLibrary,theSacklerLibrary,theTaylor- ian Library, the Oriental Institute Library, and the Slavonic Library have respondedwithendlesspatienceandhelptomyrequestsforhelpinlocating booksandjournals,atatimeofreorganizationwhichmadethingsdifficultfor them. The Classics Department of the University of Exeter and the staff of ExeterUniversityLibraryhavemademeverywelcomeasafrequentvisitor. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,14/1/2015,SPi Acknowledgements ix Something I have not learnt while writing this book is how to draw. I am indebted to Patience Gray for creating a first draft of the figures thatbrighten chapters4and5,perceptivelyfittingthemfortheirpurpose,andtoBarkingDog Art for their beautiful rendering. No particular connection to the figures, but duringthewritingprocessCastorthecathasfrequentlyextendedafriendlypaw ontothekeyboard.Ihavenot,Ithink,adoptedanyofhissuggestedalterations, buthisconstantinterestintheprojecthasbeenmosttouching. Hilary O’Shea, Annie Rose, and Kizzy Taylor-Richelieu at Oxford Univer- sity Press have been utterly kind and helpful throughout the publication process. Donald Watt took on the unenviable task of copy-editing a very complexmanuscript,andHelenHugheshasgiventhebookthebenefitofan expert proofreader’s eye. I am causing them extra trouble by adding them to theseacknowledgements,butIamextremelygratefulfortheircarefulwork. IoweadebttoEleanorDickeythatcannotbeadequatelyexpressed.Shehas read every word of this book, when she had her own book to finish, and has keptmegoingateverypointwithincisiveobservations,questions,discussion, excellentideas,cupsoftea,andmuchmore. This book is dedicated with gratitude for everything to my relatives, who havenevertiredofenquiring,‘Howareyourrelatives?’.
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