Form and function in Greek grammar : linguistic contributions to the study of Greek literature / / by Albert Rijksbaron ; edited by Rutger J. Allan, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink.

• Superior document: Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; volume 30
• VerfasserIn: Rijksbaron, Albert,
• TeilnehmendeR: Allan, Rutger J.,; Emde Boas, Evert van, 1982-; Huitink, Luuk, 1981-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 pages).

Albert Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly debate concerning many aspects of Greek linguistics. This volume brings together twenty of his papers, two of which have been translated into English and some which are not easily accessible elsewhere. The selection represents the full range of Rijksbaron’s research, including papers on central topics in Greek linguistics such as tense-aspect, mood, voice, particles, negation, the article, questions, discourse analysis, as well as on the views of ancient grammarians and modern commentators. As a whole, the volume shows how much linguistic analysis can contribute to our understanding of Greek literary texts.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Albert Rijksbaron—CV and Publications -- Introduction -- A Review of: H. Hettrich, Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots -- The Greek Perfect: Subject versus Object -- The Discourse Function of the Imperfect -- Sur les emplois de λέγε et εἰπέ chez Platon -- On False Historic Presents in Sophocles (and Euripides) -- Ἀκροᾶσθαι or ἀκροάσασθαι (Plato, Ion 530d9)? -- The Imperfect as the Tense of Substitutionary Perception -- How Does a Messenger Begin His Speech? Some Observations on the Opening Lines of Euripidean Messenger Speeches -- Discourse Cohesion in the Proem of Hesiod’s Theogony -- On the Syntax and Pragmatics of inquit Formulae in Plato’s Narrated Dialogues -- Sur quelques différences entre οὗτος ὁ + substantif, οὗτος δὲ ὁ + substantif, ὁ δὲ + substantif + οὗτος chez Hérodote -- Sur les emplois de ἐάν et ἐπεάν (à propos d’ Euripide, Bacchae 50–51) -- The Syntax and Semantics of Expressions of Sorrow and Related Concepts in Homer -- The Meaning and Word Class of πρότερον and τὸ πρότερον -- Adverb or Connector? The Case of καὶ … δέ -- Sur l’ article avec nom propre -- Does Ancient Greek Have a Word for ‘No’? The Evidence from οὐκοῦν (…) οὐ Questions -- The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians -- A Question of Questions: peusis, erôtêsis and [Longinus] Περὶ ὕψους 18.1 -- The Xenophon Factory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of School Editions of Xenophon’s Anabasis.