Linguistics and formulas in Homer : scalarity and the description of the particle per / / Egbert J. Bakker

• Autore: Bakker Egbert J
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 pages)
• Disciplina: 883/.01
• Soggetto topico: Greek language - Particles; Per (The Greek word); Oral-formulaic analysis
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 superlatives; 2.1.4 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 polarity; 2.4.1 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 comparatives; 3.4 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 relation; 4.1.2 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; 5. PARTICIPLES II: FORMULAS AND METRICS
• Sommario/riassunto: 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' proper. First, the discussion of per as a scalar article contributes to the discussion of scalar phenomena in general. Second, as a description of a linguistic feature in the Iliad and Odyssey, metrical texts of oral-formulaic origin, this study is also an essay in the relation between linguistics on the one
• Titolo autorizzato: Linguistics and formulas in Homer
• ISBN: 1-283-42410-X; 9786613424105; 90-272-7441-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778958103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II