On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek

• Autore: Luraghi Silvia <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 20031101; John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Disciplina: 485/.7
• Soggetto topico: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Linguistics / Semantics; Greek language - Prepositions; Greek language - Semantics; Greek language - Case; Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures; Languages & Literatures
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 0.0. Aims of the book -- 0.1. Ancient Greek -- 0.1.1. Accessibility of Ancient Greek data -- 0.1.2. Greek varieties -- 0.1.3. Parts of speech and inflectional categories -- 0.2. Texts used for this book -- 0.2.1. The Homeric poems -- 0.2.2. Herodotus' Histories -- 0.2.3. Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars -- 0.2.4. Plato's Dialogues -- 0.2.5. Aristotle -- 0.2.6. Other Attic authors -- 0.2.7. Xenophon -- 0.2.8. Later works -- 0.3. Some remarks on the glosses -- Theoretical foundations -- 1.0. Introduction -- 1.1. The meaning of grammatical forms -- 1.1.1. Lexical meaning -- 1.1.2. `Grammatical' and `concrete' (uses of) cases -- 1.1.3. `New' and `old' metaphors -- 1.1.4. Mental maps -- 1.2. Semantic roles -- 1.2.1. Space -- 1.2.2. Time -- 1.2.3. Comitative -- 1.2.4. Causal semantic roles -- 1.2.5. Recipient -- 1.2.6. Beneficiary -- 1.2.7. Experiencer -- 1.2.8. Possessor -- 1.2.9. Purpose -- 1.2.10. Patient -- 1.2.11. Manner -- 1.2.12. Area -- The semantics of Greek cases -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Case syncretism -- 2.1.1. Case syncretism as a diachronic process -- 2.1.2. Genitive and ablative -- 2.1.3. Dative, locative, and instrumental -- 2.2. The meaning of cases without prepositions -- 2.2.1. The accusative -- 2.2.2. The genitive -- 2.2.3. The dative -- 2.3. The sub-system of local cases and its substitutes -- Greek prepositions -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.0.1. Categorial status -- 3.0.2. Phrase structure -- 3.0.3. Case variation -- 3.0.4. Position of the particles in Homer -- Conclusions -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Spatial meaning of the prepositions -- 4.2. Paths of semantic extension and abstract uses of prepositions -- 4.2.1. Time -- 4.2.2. Comitative -- 4.2.3. Agent. ; 4.2.4. Instrument -- 4.2.5. Intermediary -- 4.2.6. Cause -- 4.2.7. Recipient/Addressee -- 4.2.8. Beneficiary -- 4.2.9. Possessor -- 4.2.10. Purpose -- 4.2.11. Area -- 4.2.12. Summary of possible semantic extensions -- 4.3. Distribution of cases within PPs -- 4.3.1. The prepositional genitive -- 4.3.2. The prepositional dative -- 4.3.3. The prepositional accusative -- 4.4. Further developments -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development. The book, based on a wide, diachronically ordered corpus, aims at providing a usage-based analysis of possible patterns of semantic extension, including the mapping of abstract domains onto the concrete domain of space. An analysis of the Greek data further highlights the interplay between specific spatial relations and the internal structure of the entities involved, and shows how case semantics may account for differences on the referential level, rather than merely express clause internal relations. The first chapter contains a typologically based discussion of semantic roles, which sets the language-specific analysis in a wider framework, showing its general relevance and applicability.
• Titolo autorizzato: On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases. The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek
• ISBN: 1-282-16072-9; 9786612160721; 90-272-9591-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821307903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II