Form and Function in Greek Grammar: Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature

Form and Function in Greek Grammar: Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature
‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Albert Rijksbaron—CV and Publications
‎Introduction
	Note on Editorial Practice
1 A Review of: H. Hettrich, Kontext und Aspekt in der altgriechischen Prosa Herodots
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Aspect as a Universal Category
		1.2 Aspect versus Tense
		1.3 Subjectivity; Freedom of Choice; Sentence and Context
	2 Hettrich’s Analysis
	3 Conclusion
	Bibliography
2 The Greek Perfect: Subject versus Object
	1 Introduction
	2 The Views of Wackernagel and Chantraine
	3 The Perfect in Homer
	4 The Perfect after Homer, and the Rise of the -κ- perfect
	5 Perfect and Aorist
	6 Conclusion
	Rosetta Stone Preamble, Lines 9–36
	Bibliography
3 The Discourse Function of the Imperfect
	1 Introduction
	2 The Temporal Properties of the Indicatives
		2.1 Present Indicative
		2.2 Perfect Indicative
		2.3 Future Indicative
		2.4 Future Perfect
		2.5 Imperfect
		2.6 Pluperfect
		2.7 Aorist Indicative
		2.8 Conclusion of Sections 2.1.–2.7.
	3 The Discourse Function of the Imperfect in Herodotus
	4 Some conclusions
	Bibliography
4. Sur les emplois de λέγε et εἰπέ chez Platon
	1 Introduction
	2 λέγε et εἰπέ chez Platon
		2.1 Le Gorgias
		2.2 Le Philèbe
		2.3 Le Ménexène
	3 Conclusion
	Références
5 On False Historic Presents in Sophocles (and Euripides)
	1 The Function of the Historic Present
	2 Some Syntactic and Semantic Features of the Historic Present
	3 Some Conclusions
	4 The Unaugmented Imperfect (and Aorist)
	5 A List of Historic Presents in Sophocles That May Actually Be Imperfects; Text and Apparatus Lloyd-Jones & Wilson, with Additions
		5.1 Discussion
		5.2 Discussion, Continued
	6 Historic Presents in Euripides That May Be Imperfects
		6.1 Discussion
	7 General Conclusions
	Appendix: Historic and Actual Presents
	References
6 Ἀκροᾶσθαι or ἀκροάσασθαι (Plato, Ion 530d9)?
	Ἀκροᾶσθαι
	Ἀκροάσασθαι
	Σχολή + Present Infinitive
	Σχολή + Aorist Infinitive
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
7 The Imperfect as the Tense of Substitutionary Perception
	Narrativity and the Imperfect
	Greek Narrative and the Imperfect
	Substitutionary Perception in Greek
	Epilogue: an Example from Latin
	Conclusion
	References
8 How Does a Messenger Begin His Speech? Some Observations on the Opening Lines of Euripidean Messenger Speeches
	1 Introduction
	2 Survey of Content
	3 Messenger Speeches That Open with an ἐπεί-clause
		3.1 List of Plays
		3.2 What Do the ἐπεί-clauses Refer to? Is the Addressee Acquainted with the Event Referred to?
		3.3 Conclusion
	4 Messenger Speeches That Open with a Simple Sentence
		4.1 List of Plays
		4.2 Conclusion
	5 How Does the Messenger Know Where to Begin His Speech?
	6 Conclusion
	References
9 Discourse Cohesion in the Proem of Hesiod’s Theogony
	Conclusion
	Appendix to στεῖχον, line 10: a Focalising Imperfect in the Myth of Plato’s Phaedrus
	The Structure of the Proem of Hesiod’s Theogony
	Bibliography
10 On the Syntax and Pragmatics of inquit Formulae in Plato’s Narrated Dialogues
	1 Frequency and Distribution of the inquit Formulae ἔφη/ἔφην and ἦ δ᾽ ὅς/ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ
	2 ἔφη/ἦ δ᾽ ὅς and ἔφην/ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ in Context
	3 Combinatory Preferences of ἔφη/ἦ δ᾽ ὅς and ἔφην/ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ
		3.1 ἔφη ὑπολαβών and Variants ‘he said, taking up this point, taking over’
		3.2 ἀληθῆ, ἀληθέστατα (λέγεις), inquit
		3.3 Εἰἑν, inquit
		3.4 τοίνυν, inquit
		3.5 Results of the Above Investigation
	4 The Opening Section of Lysis
	5 Application to an Extended Passage: Plato, Phaedo 60d8–62a1
	Works cited
11 Sur quelques différences entre οὗτος ὁ + substantif, οὗτος δὲ ὁ + substantif, ὁ δὲ + substantif + οὗτος chez Hérodote
	1 οὗτος ὁ + substantif
	2 οὗτος δὲ ὁ + substantif
	3 ὁ δὲ + substantif + οὗτος
	4 Conclusion
	Références
12 Sur les emplois de ἐάν et ἐπεάν (à propos d’Euripide, Bacchae 50–51)
	1 Subordonée en ἐάν à valeur future: ‘éventualité’ ou ‘attente’?
	2 Subordonnée en ἐπεάν à valeur future: la ‘certitude’
	3 Ἐάν et ἐπεάν ‘génériques’: ‘réalisation occasionnelle’ et ‘réalisation nécessaire’
	4 Conclusion
	Références
13 The Syntax and Semantics of Expressions of Sorrow and Related Concepts in Homer
	Introduction
	1 Ἄχεα etc. as Object
		1.1 Constructions with ἔχειν
		1.2 Constructions with διδόναι and Other Verbs of Giving
		1.3 Constructions with τιθέναι
		1.4 Constructions with πῆμα/πήματα as Object
		1.5 Some Particulars
	2 The Same Words as Subject, but Mostly in the Singular
		2.1 Of εἶναι and γενέσθαι, + Dative; Also of Verbless Sentences
		2.2 Of Momentaneous Verb Forms of Seizing: λαβεῖν, ἑλεῖν
		2.3 With Verbs of Reaching
		2.4 With Verbs of Approaching
	Select bibliography
14 The Meaning and Word Class of πρότερον and τὸ πρότερον
	1 Introduction
	2 Some (Morpho-)syntactic Observations
	3 Τὸ πρότερον and πρότερον
	4 Some Syntactic-Semantic Differences
	5 Further Examples
		5.1 Of τὸ πρότερον with a Form of the Aorist Stem; = ‘the previous time’
		5.2 Of τὸ πρότερον with a Form of the Present Stem; = ‘during the preceding time’
		5.3 Of πρότερον = ‘before, earlier’
	6 The Word Class of πρότερον and τὸ πρότερον
		6.1 From a Traditional Point of View
		6.2 From a Functional Point of View
	References
15 Adverb or Connector? The Case of καὶ … δέ
	1 Introduction
	2 The Use of καὶ … δέ Connecting Single Words
		2.1 καὶ … δέ Connects Two Items |
		2.2 καὶ … δέ Connects Two Items in a Series of Three or More Items
	3 καὶ … δέ Connects Clauses or Sentences
		3.1 Preceded by τε or καί
		3.2 Other Cases
		3.3 καὶ … δέ = ‘and also/too’?
		3.4 οὐδὲ … δέ
		3.5 μὲν … καὶ … δέ
	4 Conclusion
	Appendix: καὶ … δὲ ὡσαύτως, and Other Constructions Involving ὡσαύτως
	References
16 Sur l’article avec nom propre
	1 Article et nom de personne en grec ancien, en général…
	2 … et dans l’Anabase de Xénophon en particulier
	3 Κῦρος contre ὁ Κῦρος
	4 Les alternances des prises de parole
	5 La position spéciale de Cyrus
	6 Les noms de personne dans la Cyropédie
	7 Article et nom de personne chez Platon
	8 Conclusion
	Références
17 Does Ancient Greek Have a Word for ‘No’? The Evidence from οὐκοῦν (…) οὐ Questions
	1 Preliminaries
	2 Questions with Bare οὐκοῦν and the Answers to οὐκοῦν
	3 The Semantics of οὐ in οὐκοῦν Questions
	4 Questions with οὐκοῦν … οὐ and the Answers to οὐκοῦν … οὐ
	5 Latin and Other Parallels
	6 Modern Greek
	7 Semantic and Pragmatic Features of ‘no’ and ‘not’ in Answers
	8 Summary
	Appendix: οὐχί and οὔχι/ὄχι/όχι (Continuation of Footnote 33)
	References
18 The Treatment of the Greek Middle Voice by the Ancient Grammarians
	1 Dionysius Thrax and His Scholiasts
	2 Apollonius Dyscolus
	3 Choeroboscus
	4 The Latin Grammarians
		4.1 Macrobius
		4.2 Charisius and Priscianus
	5 Conclusion: a Comparison with Philosophical Approaches
	References
19 A Question of Questions: peusis, erôtêsis and [Longinus] Περὶ ὕψους 18.1
	References
20 The Xenophon Factory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of School Editions of Xenophon’s Anabasis
	1 Introduction
	2 Nineteenth-Century Education, in Germany and Elsewhere
	3 School Editions of the Anabasis
	4 Cultural Differences
	5 ‘Für den Schulgebrauch’—or is There More to It?
	6 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.1.1–4: What Are the Problems?
	7 Conclusion
	Appendix: Krüger on Δαρείου καὶ Παρυσάτιδος
	Works Cited
‎Index Rerum
‎Index Graecitatis
‎Index Locorum