Building Modality with Syntax : : Focus on Ancient Greek /

Building Modality with Syntax : : Focus on Ancient Greek / / ed. by Camille Denizot, Liana Tronci.

Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bartolo, Giuseppina di,
Benedetti, Marina,
Denizot, Camille,
Gianollo, Chiara,
Masliš, Martin,
Pardal Padín, Alberto,
Revuelta Puigdollers, Antonio R.,
Roi, Ezra la,
Ruiz Yamuza, Emilia,
Tronci, Liana,
Vassilaki, Sophie,
Verano, Rodrigo,
HerausgeberIn:
Denizot, Camille,
Tronci, Liana,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 372
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 269 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors’ acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1 For a syntactic approach to modality and its application to Ancient Greek
  • 2 Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek
  • 3 Information source and complementation in Classical Greek. The case of verbs of seeing and knowledge acquisition
  • 4 Syntactic patterns of modality in temporal clauses: Hóte vs. hótan in the diachrony of Ancient Greek
  • 5 Variation and change of counterfactual conditionals in Postclassical Greek: Evidence from private papyrus letters
  • 6 Conditional subordinate clauses and verbal moods. A case study
  • 7 (Inter)subjectivity, modality, and syntax in Classical Greek: Dokéō and phaínomai in addressee-oriented assertions in the dialogues of Plato
  • 8 A pragmatic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction and mood (a)symmetry from Archaic to Classical Greek
  • 9 Mood, modality and speech acts in clause combination. The case of conditionals
  • List of contributors
  • Index locorum
  • Index verborum
  • Index notionum

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