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Record Nr.

UNISA996237239703316

Autore

Buijs Michel

Titolo

Clause combining in ancient Greek narrative discourse [[electronic resource] ] : the distribution of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis / / by Michel Buijs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86762-0

9786610867622

90-474-0697-4

1-4337-0521-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, , 0169-8958 ; ; 260

Disciplina

485

Soggetti

Greek language - Clauses

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500

Rhetoric, Ancient

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. [261]-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- SIX NEAR-MINIMAL PAIRS -- PRESENTATION OF REAL WORLD RELATIONS -- REAL WORLD CONSTRUCTION AND TEXT ARTICULATION: PREPOSED SUBORDINATE CLAUSES AND DISCOURSE SEGMENTATION -- CLAUSE COMBINING AND INFORMATION PROCESSING -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF LINGUISTIC TERMS -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX LOCORUM -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.

Sommario/riassunto

This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis , with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach. The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the



differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information flow in on-going discourse. The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.