The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek: Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46752-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: The Language of Classical Lite

The book offers a new account of the distribution of the various types of wh-clauses in Classical Greek based on new findings regarding their syntax and semantics: their (non)identificational status, but not the traditional categories (relatives, interrogatives) is relevant.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faure, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Tables and Figures

1 The Landscape of Wh-clauses in Classical Greek

1 Three Paradigms of wh-items in Classical Greek

2 The Nature of wh-items

3 What This Book Is Not About

4 About the Chapters of This Book

Part 1 The Framework

2 ??/?st?? Form a Pair of Complementary Items

1 The Uses

2 The Difference between ?? and ?st??

3 Generalizing: The Notion of Identification

4 Conclusion

3 Bringing ??? into the Picture

1 Uses Common to t?? and ?st??

2 ??? and ?st?? in Indirect Interrogative Clauses

3 ?st?? Meaning

4 ??? Meaning

5 Conclusion

Part 2 Marginal Cases

4 The Clash between Definite Terms and ?st?? as Pragmatic Disagreement

1 ?st?? Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item

2 Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ?st??]

3 ‘Causal’ ?st?? as an Illocutionary Operator

4 Illocutionary ?st?? Is Nonidentificational

5 Conclusion

5 Complement Wh-clauses and the Predicates That Embed Them

1 Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in the Landscape of Propositional Attitude Predicates

2 Classification Based on Denotations of Interrogative Clauses

3 The Distribution of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in Classical Greek

4 Conclusion

6 ??? (and ?st??) in Unselected Embedded Questions

1 Wh- vs. Yes/No-Unselected Embedded Questions

2 Previous Approaches to wh-UEQs

3 The Left Periphery of wh-UEQ

4 A Type-Shifting Account for wh-UEQs

5 Concluding Remarks

7 The Origin of ?? Interrogatives

1 ?? Clauses as Interrogatives

2 ?? Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates

3 Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments

4 Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and ?? Clauses

5 From Relative to Interrogative Clauses

6 Concluding Remarks

8 Wh-exclamative Clauses

1 Classical Greek Data

2 Exclamatives as Presupposed Propositions

3 Focus: What We Learn from Syntax

4 Scalarity, Degree, Widening and Unexpectedness

5 Concluding Remarks

9 The Ups and Downs of Classical Greek Wh-items

1 Identification as the Key Notion

2 Semantic vs. Traditional Syntactic Classification in Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives

3 Three Words of Diachrony

4 Final Word

Appendix: Constructions and Classification of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates

References

Index Locorum

Index Notionum et Rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Faure (Phd, Sorbonne 2010) is Maître de conférences (associate professor) at Université Côte d'Azur. He specializes in Ancient and general linguistics. He published extensively on subordination at the syntax/semantics interface on Greek, but also on Armenian, French, Occitan.