Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek: Language, Linguistics and Philology (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes)

This collective volume contains thirty six original studies on various aspects of Ancient Greek language, linguistics and philology written by an international group of leading authorities in the field. The essays are organized in five thematic groups covering a wide variety of issues of ancient Greek linguistics, ranging from epigraphy and the study of individual dialects to various other aspects of the structure of the language, such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon and word formation, etymology, metrics as well as many syntactic matters and problems of pragmatics and stylistics of the language; a number of essays move in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other with the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts. The work is of special relevance to scholars interested in Greek linguistics in general and in particular aspects of the Greek language.- Información editorial Preface 5 Contents 7 List of Figures and Diagrams 11 List of Tables 13 Emilio Crespo Güemes: The Man and the Scholar 15 Publications of Prof. Emilio Crespo 23 Part I: Epigraphy and Dialectology 37 The Ionic of Lampsacus and the Month of Badromion 37 Reflexes of Koineization in Ancient Epirote Feminine Names 47 Women’s Names in the Lesbian Dialect 69 “Nicomachos Made Me!” Palaeography and Self-promotion in Late Archaic Greek Italy 79 Αn Arcadian Man Called Βôθις, or Rather Βόθις? 99 Verba Volant. Notes on Some Graffiti from Thasos 109 Modern Greek Evidence for Ancient Greek Dialects: The Case of Megarian 125 Part II: Lexicon, Onomastics, Morphology, and Morphophonology 151 The Noun for ‘Horse’ in Mycenaean and Some Related Terms 151 Greek δάρδα, ‘Bee’ 161 On Some Naming Constructions in Homeric Greek 165 On the “Kriaras” Lexicon of Medieval Vulgar Greek: Issues of Substance (MGL) 175 Getting There? Greek δύναμαι, ‘Be Able’ 187 The Κένταυρος Controversy Revisited: An Old Etymological Puzzle in a Comparative-Mythological Perspective 199 μνημονεύω 219 Sappho’s Little Cuddly Fawns: A Reply to an Alternative Proposal (Including a Few Remarks on the Semantics of the Adjectives in -ιος and -ειος) 221 Main Phonetic Changes in Ancient Greek Obscuring the PIE Ablaut 229 Part III: Syntax and Clause Structure 251 Reconstructing (Late) Proto-Indo-European Syntax: Absolute Constructions 251 Γίγνομαι as the Lexical Passive of the Support Verb ποιέω in Ancient Greek 263 On the Use of the Oblique Optative Dependent on Verba Dicendi in Herodotus 277 On Negation, Jespersen’s Cycle, and Negative Concord in Post-Classical Greek 289 A Construction Grammar Approach to Ancient Greek Argument Structure Constructions 301 Past Tenses of Modal Verbs: ἔδει and (ἐ)χρῆν in Attic Tragedy and Comedy 315 Relative Time and Narrative in Herodotus and Thucydides 327 Part IV: Pragmatics and Discourse 345 The Grammaticalization of μέντοι. Genesis and Scope Increase 345 Off- and On-record Complaints in Sophocles: An Initial Approach 359 A Note on the Anastrophe of περί with the Genitive in Classical Greek 371 Impersonalization as a Mechanism of Impoliteness in Aeschines and Demosthenes: A Study of οὐδείς and μηδείς 383 Discourse Markers, Interpretation, and Translation in the Lord’s Prayer 393 Evolution of πλήν 403 Discourse Markers ἔμπᾱς/ἔμπᾱν/ἔμπᾰ Compared with ἔμπης in the Archaic and Classical Periods 419 Part V: In the Linguistics-Philology Interstices 433 “Love Teaches”: Echoes of a Fragment from Euripides 433 Elis in Homer: Language, Archaeology, Epic Tradition 443 The Concept of ‘Emphasis’ in Ancient Greek and Indo-European 449 A Quantitative Tetrameter for Proto-Indo- European 475 Penis ex Machina as ‘Anticlimax’: ἐξέβαλ’, οἰῶ, τὸ ξίφος (Ar. Lys. 155–156) 499 Pythagoras and the Magi 509 List of Contributors 517 Index 525

This collective volume contains thirty six original studies on various aspects of Ancient Greek language, linguistics and philology written by an international group of leading authorities in the field.

The essays are organized in five thematic groups covering a wide variety of issues of ancient Greek linguistics, ranging from epigraphy and the study of individual dialects to various other aspects of the structure of the language, such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon and word formation, etymology, metrics as well as many syntactic matters and problems of pragmatics and stylistics of the language; a number of essays move in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other with the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts.

The work is of special relevance to scholars interested in Greek linguistics in general and in particular aspects of the Greek language.

"This collective volume contains thirty six original studies on various aspects of Ancient Greek language, linguistics and philology written by an international group of leading authorities in the field. The essays are organized in five thematic groups covering a wide variety of issues of ancient Greek linguistics, ranging from epigraphy and the study of individual dialects to various other aspects of the structure of the language, such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon and word formation, etymology, metrics as well as many syntactic matters and problems of pragmatics and stylistics of the language; a number of essays move in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other with the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts."--Publisher