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1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser. ; v. 32 |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics.
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| Contents |
880-01 Cover; Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Preface; List of abbreviations; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The two-negator system of Greek; 1.2 Theoretical backgrounds: semantics, syntax, and agreement; 1.3 Selection of texts and methodology; 1.4 Periodization; 1.4.1 Classical Greek (fifth to fourth centuries bc): the Attic dialect; 1.4.2 Hellenistic and Roman times (third century bc to fourth century ad): Atticism and the Koine; 1.4.3 Early Medieval Greek (fifth to tenth centuries ad) |
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880-01/(S 3.4.1.4 Lexical negation3.4.1.5 Constituent negation; 3.5 The nonnegative uses of Neg2 μή /mε:/; 3.5.1 Neg2 μή /mε:/ as a question particle; 3.5.2 Neg2 μή /mε:/ as complementizer; 3.5.3 Neg2 μή /mε:/ of pathos: Neg2 as an attitudinal; 3.6 The morphologically negative indefinites of Attic Greek: Neg1-words and Neg2-words; 3.6.1 Attic Greek Negative Concord; 3.6.2 The syntactic analysis of Attic Greek Negative Concord; 3.6.3 Neg1-thing and Neg2-thing as negative adverbs; 3.7 Summary |
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1.4.4 Late Medieval Greek (eleventh to fifteenth centuries ad)1.4.5 Early Modern Greek (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ad); 1.5 Previous work; 1.5.1 The Classical scholars; 1.5.2 More recent contributions within linguistics; 1.6 Markedness, the Nonveridicality projection, and pragmatic grounding; 1.7 Roadmap; 2: The (non)veridicality theory of polarity and negator selection; 2.1 Negative polarity: precursors and (non)veridicality (Giannakidou 1998); 2.2 Polarity phenomena in Standard Modern Greek; 2.2.1 Negative polarity items |
| Summary |
This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek, based on extensive data from major stages of the language. It also provides a new semantic interpretation of Jespersen's cycle that explains the Greek developments and those in other languages |
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4: Developments in Hellenistic-Roman times and the Nonveridicality projection (third century bc to fourth century ad) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Greek language -- Semantics, Historical
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Grammar, Comparative and general
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Greek language -- Semantics, Historical
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191021183 |
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0191021180 |
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