Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Editorial page

Title page

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Table of contents

Editors’ foreword

Part I. Speech acts and pragmaticalization

Part II. New insights into word order

Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of “particles”

List of contributors

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introduction

1. Introduction

2. Speech acts

i. Interpersonal relations and politeness

ii. Pragmatic markers

3. Constituent order

4. Conjunctions, connectors, and particles

5. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Part I. Speech acts

Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient Greek

1. Introduction

2. Internal analysis of Greek data

2.1 Illocutionary and modality verbs

2.2 Particles

2.3 Discursive context

2.4 Subordinate mood selection

3. Comparative and typological parallels

4. Grammarians

5. A case study: ó:phelon (ὤφελον)

5.1 Stages I–II: From lexical verb to modal verb

5.2 Stage III: Counterfactual assertions

5.3 Stage IV: From declarative to desiderative counterfactuals

5.4 Stage V: Development from verb into particle

5.5 Stage VI: Extension to non-counterfactual wishes

6. Summary and conclusions

References

Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocative

1. Introduction

2. Vocative: Form, construction, utterance

3. The traditionally recognized call and address functions and their definition

4. Vocative as a marker of discourse structure

5. Vocative of sincerity and guarantee

6. Reduplicated vocative of discontent

7. Functions of the vocative-construction and the lexical meaning of the words involved

8. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 4. Discursive and pragmatic functions of Latin em: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization… interjectionalization?

1. Introduction: Data and methods

2. Etymological content: em imperative of emere

3. Grammaticalization: Presentative function

4. Pragmaticalization: em as a discourse and pragmatic marker

4.1 Reference to one’s own discourse

4.2 Reference to the interlocutor’s discourse

5. Expression of the speaker’s subjectivity: Interjectionalization?

6. The diachronic axis

7. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 5. Quapropter, quaeso? ‘Why, for pity’s sake?’: Questions and the pragmatic functions of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in Plautus

1. Introduction

1.1 Object of investigation

1.2 State of the art and aims of the present study

1.3 Pragmatic markers and their analysis in a classical language

2. Theoretical framework: Speech Acts and Pragmatic Macrofunctions

2.1 Speech acts

2.2 Pragmatic macrofunctions

3. A functional account of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in questions

3.1 Subtypes of questions

3.2 Referential questions

3.3 Directive interrogatives

3.4 Expressive interrogatives

4. Discussion

5. Conclusions

References

Part II. New insights into word order

Chapter 6. Constituent order in directives with stative verbs in Latin

1. Introduction. Objectives, structure, and corpus

2. Illocutionary force and verbal mood

3. Brief overview of research

4. Analysis

4.1 Monovalent constructions

4.2 Bivalent structures

5. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 7. The right periphery in Ancient Greek

1. Introduction

2. The concept of right periphery (RP)

2.1 Identification of RPE

3. Analysis of the constructions at the right periphery

3.1 Appositions

3.2 Conjunct participles

3.3 Absolute participles

3.4 Relative clauses

3.5 Epitactic constructions

4. Towards an overview of pragmatic functions of the RP

4.1 Repair topic function

4.2 Introducing additional information

4.3 Comment function

4.4 Focalising

5. Conclusion

References

Chapter 8. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Word order and pragmatics of the Latin original

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical basis

3. Overview of pragmatic constellation of WO in RGDA

3.1 Text and context of RGDA

3.2 Pragmatic analysis of the text

3.3 Some examples

4. Particular cases

4.1 Forms of the pronoun ego

4.2 Other cases: Topics in preverbal position?

5. Constituents in postverbal position: Tails

6. Conclusion

References

Chapter 9. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Pragmatic structure and word order of the Greek translation

1. Introduction

2. Word order in Ancient Greek: Basic assumptions

3. Word order patterns in the RGDA

3.1 The basic template

3.2 Second template

4. The Greek text compared with the Latin original

4.1 Change in the syntactic construction

4.2 Cases which provide indirect evidence of Greek word order

4.3 Changes originating from the differences between pragmatic templates of Latin and Greek, respectively

4.4 A particular tendency to split complex Focus

4.5 Particular cases with no apparent pragmatic motivation

4.5 Some problematic cases

5. Conclusions

References

Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of “particles”

Chapter 10. On the distribution of some interactive/conclusive discourse markers in Plato’s Theaetetus

1. Introduction

2. The main findings of previous studies and the results expected from the current study

2.1 A survey of previous studies on particles in Plato’s dialogues

2.2 Methodology and aims

3. Data analysis

3.1 Ára and oûn

3.2 Oukoûn and toínun

3.3 To sum up

4. Concluding remarks and some perspectives for further research

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 11. Polar questions in Latin with and without the enclitic particle -ne

1. Introduction

2. Data: Corpus A

2.1 Distribution of -ne

2.2 Diachrony

3. Corpus B: Direct simple polar questions in Plautus and Terence

4. Function of questions with -ne and without any particle

4.1 Four groups of questions

4.2 -ne in exclamatory sentences

4.3 Comparison

5. Frequent combinations of host word and -ne

6. Etymology

7. Conclusion

References

Chapter 12. A unitary account of the meaning of kaí

1. Introduction

2. Purpose

3. A tentative unified account of the meaning of kaí in Classical Greek

4. Coordinator (‘and’)

4.1 Non-corresponsive coordinator

4.2 Corresponsive coordinator

4.3 Equative coordinator

4.4 Coordinator with a sense of climax: ‘and particularly’

5. Adverb of addition (‘also, too, even’)

5.1 Adverb of neutral addition: ‘also’

5.2 Linking adverb accompanying a coordinator: ‘also’

5.3 Adverb of unexpected addition: ‘even’

5.4 Adverb adding the content of a clause to another

6. Adverb of emphasis

7. Kaí at sentence beginning

8. Concluding remarks

References

Chapter 13. Ancient Greek adversative particles in contrast

1. Introduction and theoretical background

2. A typology of adversative relations

3. Allá

4. Méntoi

5. Kaítoi

6. Mé:n

7. Conclusions

References

Index locorum

Index rerum