Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Reihe: Bibliotheque Des Cahiers de Li
ISBN: 978-90-429-2722-3
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
Despite the difficulties of reconstructing the grammar of a dead
language, studying Ancient Greek offers new insights for linguistic
theory. The morphological complexity of the Greek verb with its highly
intricate inflectional system provides a valuable basis for an in-depth
analysis of the mechanisms which regulate the functioning of a language.
Studies on the Ancient Greek verb have also contributed significantly to
the reconstruction of the Indo-European language since the early history
of Linguistics in the nineteenth century. The conservative features
preserved in the oldest stages of Greek allow us to rely on a solid
basis to which every linguist must refer in investigating a model of the
Proto-Indo-European verb.
The present volume contains the papers presented at the 8th
International Meeting on Greek Linguistics (GL8) held in Agrigento in
October 2009, hosted by the University of Palermo, Italy. The conference
was part of a series of biennial international meetings on Ancient Greek
Linguistics organized in Italy since 1993. It was entitled ‘The Greek
Verb: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics’ and was aimed at discussing
trending issues on the Ancient Greek verbal system from a perspective
both synchronic and diachronic.
The contributions of this book analyze phonological, morphological,
syntactic and semantic phenomena from various areas of grammar
pertaining to the verb, using a large corpus which ranges mostly from
Homeric to Classical Greek. There is diversity in the topics covered,
but the approach which unifies the volume is that of challenging
traditional divisions and rigid boundaries between different levels of
analysis, focusing on fundamental issues in theoretically-based
linguistics from a broad perspective: morphosyntactic and syntactic
variation, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic aspects
of grammatical phenomena. The papers also adopt different theoretical
frameworks, both synchronic and diachronic, and develop diverse
approaches varying from the cognitive (prototype theory), and the formal
(Distributed Morphology), to the pragmatic-functional, and the
historical-comparative.
This volume provides a current overview of some work on Ancient Greek
Linguistics, setting forth interesting topics for further research and
drawing more attention to the contribution which historical linguistics
and the study of dead languages can give to the improvement and growth
of linguistic theories, toward a deeper comprehension of the language
system.
