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Form and Function in Greek Grammar
Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature
Series: - Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, Volume: 30
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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 Rijksbaronâs 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.
Albert Rijksbaron (Amsterdam 1943) studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1968, majoring in Ancient Greek Linguistics, and was appointed assistant professor in the same year. In 1976 he defended his thesis on Temporal and Causal Conjunctions in Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. In 2000 he was appointed full professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics in Amsterdam. He retired in 2005.
Rutger J. Allan, PhD Amsterdam 2002, is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Free University Amsterdam. He is the author of The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study in Polysemy (2003) and co-editor of the volumes The Language of Literature (2007) and The Greek Future and its History (2017).
Evert van Emde Boas, DPhil Oxford 2011, is Leventis Research Fellow of Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Language and Character in Euripidesâ Electra (OUP 2017), lead author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP 2018), and co-editor of Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2018).
Luuk Huitink: DPhil University of Oxford 2012; postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. co-author of Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2018); author, with Tim Rood, of Xenophon. Anabasis III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 2018); co-editor of Experience, Narrative and Literary Criticism in Ancient Greece (Oxford, in press).
Rutger J. Allan, PhD Amsterdam 2002, is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Free University Amsterdam. He is the author of The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study in Polysemy (2003) and co-editor of the volumes The Language of Literature (2007) and The Greek Future and its History (2017).
Evert van Emde Boas, DPhil Oxford 2011, is Leventis Research Fellow of Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Language and Character in Euripidesâ Electra (OUP 2017), lead author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP 2018), and co-editor of Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2018).
Luuk Huitink: DPhil University of Oxford 2012; postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. co-author of Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2018); author, with Tim Rood, of Xenophon. Anabasis III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 2018); co-editor of Experience, Narrative and Literary Criticism in Ancient Greece (Oxford, in press).
"Readers will probably be most familiar with Rijksbaronâs work from his Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek and his linguistic commentary on Platoâs Ion, but there is also much to be gained from bundling together this greatest hits collection, as it brings out especially clearly the fruitfulness of the Functional Grammar approach. On a wide range of topicsâparticularly the tense and aspect system of the Greek verb and the discourse particlesâtime after time, Rijksbaronâs careful attention to the contextual circumstances that differ when two competing forms are used reveals previously unnoticed patterns that can help all classicists better understand the nuances conveyed by an imperfect in Hesiod, or an aorist imperative in Plato." - Coulter H. George, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.09.02
''Le lecteur pourra donc dans cette édition très bien faite (re)découvrir les travaux, parfois difficiles à trouver, et les intérêts multiples dâun chercheur en grec ancien qui aura marqué son époque.'' - Richard Faure, in: Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris vol. 115.1 (2020)
''Le lecteur pourra donc dans cette édition très bien faite (re)découvrir les travaux, parfois difficiles à trouver, et les intérêts multiples dâun chercheur en grec ancien qui aura marqué son époque.'' - Richard Faure, in: Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris vol. 115.1 (2020)
Acknowledgements Albert RijksbaronâCV and Publications
Introduction
1 A Review of: H. Hettrich, Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots
2 The Greek Perfect: Subject versus Object
3 The Discourse Function of the Imperfect
4 Sur les emplois de λέγε et εἰÏá½³ chez Platon
5 On False Historic Presents in Sophocles (and Euripides)
6 á¼ÎºÏοᾶÏθαι or á¼ÎºÏοάÏαÏθαι (Plato, Ion 530d9)?
7 The Imperfect as the Tense of Substitutionary Perception
8 How Does a Messenger Begin His Speech? Some Observations on the Opening Lines of Euripidean Messenger Speeches
9 Discourse Cohesion in the Proem of Hesiodâs Theogony
10 On the Syntax and Pragmatics of inquit Formulae in Platoâs Narrated Dialogues
11 Sur quelques différences entre οá½ÏÎ¿Ï á½ + substantif, οá½ÏÎ¿Ï Î´á½² á½ + substantif, ὠδὲ + substantif + οá½ÏÎ¿Ï chez Hérodote
12 Sur les emplois des á¼á½±Î½ et á¼Ïεάν (à propos dâ Euripide, Bacchae 50â51)
13 The Syntax and Semantics of Expressions of Sorrow and Related Concepts in Homer
14 The Meaning and Word Class of ÏÏá½¹ÏεÏον and Ïὸ ÏÏá½¹ÏεÏον
15 Adverb or Connector? The Case of καὶ ⦠δέ
16 Sur lâ article avec nom propre
17 Does Ancient Greek Have a Word for ânoâ? The Evidence from οá½ÎºÎ¿á¿¦Î½ οὠQuestions
18 The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians
19 A Question of Questions: peusis, erôtêsis and [Longinus] ΠεÏὶ á½ÏÎ¿Ï Ï 18.1
20 The Xenophon Factory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of School Editions of Xenophonâs Anabasis
Indexes
Introduction
1 A Review of: H. Hettrich, Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots
2 The Greek Perfect: Subject versus Object
3 The Discourse Function of the Imperfect
4 Sur les emplois de λέγε et εἰÏá½³ chez Platon
5 On False Historic Presents in Sophocles (and Euripides)
6 á¼ÎºÏοᾶÏθαι or á¼ÎºÏοάÏαÏθαι (Plato, Ion 530d9)?
7 The Imperfect as the Tense of Substitutionary Perception
8 How Does a Messenger Begin His Speech? Some Observations on the Opening Lines of Euripidean Messenger Speeches
9 Discourse Cohesion in the Proem of Hesiodâs Theogony
10 On the Syntax and Pragmatics of inquit Formulae in Platoâs Narrated Dialogues
11 Sur quelques différences entre οá½ÏÎ¿Ï á½ + substantif, οá½ÏÎ¿Ï Î´á½² á½ + substantif, ὠδὲ + substantif + οá½ÏÎ¿Ï chez Hérodote
12 Sur les emplois des á¼á½±Î½ et á¼Ïεάν (à propos dâ Euripide, Bacchae 50â51)
13 The Syntax and Semantics of Expressions of Sorrow and Related Concepts in Homer
14 The Meaning and Word Class of ÏÏá½¹ÏεÏον and Ïὸ ÏÏá½¹ÏεÏον
15 Adverb or Connector? The Case of καὶ ⦠δέ
16 Sur lâ article avec nom propre
17 Does Ancient Greek Have a Word for ânoâ? The Evidence from οá½ÎºÎ¿á¿¦Î½ οὠQuestions
18 The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians
19 A Question of Questions: peusis, erôtêsis and [Longinus] ΠεÏὶ á½ÏÎ¿Ï Ï 18.1
20 The Xenophon Factory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of School Editions of Xenophonâs Anabasis
Indexes
The volume will be of interest to academic libraries and institutes, and to all interested in Greek linguistics and literature.