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Record Nr.

UNISA996209834803316

Autore

Dik Helma

Titolo

Word order in Greek tragic dialogue [[electronic resource] /] / Helma Dik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16483-6

9786611164836

0-19-153542-7

1-4356-2379-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

882.0109

882/.0109

Soggetti

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Greek language - Word order

Dialogue

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations and Symbols; 1. Introduction; 2. Accounting for Word Order Variation in Greek; 3. Tragic Ways of Dying: Word Order in the Clause; 4. Word Order in the Noun Phrase; 5. Enter Dialogue: Questions in Sophocles and Euripides; 6. Back to the Trimeter; 7. Back to the Text: Four Readings in Sophocles' Electra; 8. Conclusion: Reading Word Order, Slowly; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Passages

Sommario/riassunto

Helma Dik approaches word order in Greek tragic dialogue from the perspective of language rather than metre. The tragic poets engaged in mimesis of natural dialogue; therefore the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of the dialogue precedes exploration of the metrical dimension, on the assumption that poets would not be overly constrained by the iambic trimeter, which, after all, was the most natural speaking verse according to Aristotle. Dik analyses the word order of tragicdialogue in pragmatic terms, arguing that, in sentences, words functioning as Topic (the 'starting point' of an u