Author: Patrick Georg Grosz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027273456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He rejects the view that optativity arises compositionally from the standard semantics of embedded clauses and prototypical particles. The following system is proposed: Desirability is due to a generalized scalar exclamation operator EX. Furthermore, clausal properties such as factivity/counterfactuality are encoded in a Mood head, which co-determines morphological mood and complementizer choice. Finally, the prototypical particles that optatives contain are truth-conditionally vacuous presupposition triggers. As a result, these meaning components do not interact directly, but their meanings converge, with the consequence that they prototypically co-occur. This monograph is of interest for formal semanticists, syntacticians, pragmaticists and morphologists, and especially relevant for research on mood and particle semantics.
On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
Author: Patrick Georg Grosz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027273456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He rejects the view that optativity arises compositionally from the standard semantics of embedded clauses and prototypical particles. The following system is proposed: Desirability is due to a generalized scalar exclamation operator EX. Furthermore, clausal properties such as factivity/counterfactuality are encoded in a Mood head, which co-determines morphological mood and complementizer choice. Finally, the prototypical particles that optatives contain are truth-conditionally vacuous presupposition triggers. As a result, these meaning components do not interact directly, but their meanings converge, with the consequence that they prototypically co-occur. This monograph is of interest for formal semanticists, syntacticians, pragmaticists and morphologists, and especially relevant for research on mood and particle semantics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027273456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that contain prototypical particles such as ‘only’. He rejects the view that optativity arises compositionally from the standard semantics of embedded clauses and prototypical particles. The following system is proposed: Desirability is due to a generalized scalar exclamation operator EX. Furthermore, clausal properties such as factivity/counterfactuality are encoded in a Mood head, which co-determines morphological mood and complementizer choice. Finally, the prototypical particles that optatives contain are truth-conditionally vacuous presupposition triggers. As a result, these meaning components do not interact directly, but their meanings converge, with the consequence that they prototypically co-occur. This monograph is of interest for formal semanticists, syntacticians, pragmaticists and morphologists, and especially relevant for research on mood and particle semantics.
Subjunctive and Optative
Author: E. Adelaide Hahn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges
Author: Herbert Weir Smyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Subjunctive and Optative
A School Grammar of Attic Greek
Author: Thomas Dwight Goodell
Publisher:
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality
Author: Klaas Bentein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004315357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality. The contributors investigate key aspects such as the existence of and competition between linguistic variants, the value of modern linguistic theory for the study of linguistic variation, and the interplay between various dimensions of variation. They focus on various stages of the Greek language (Archaic, Classical, Post-classical, and Byzantine), taking both qualitative and quantitative approaches. By doing so, they offer valuable insights in the multi-faced nature of the Greek verbal system, providing an incentive towards the further study of linguistic variation and change.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004315357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality. The contributors investigate key aspects such as the existence of and competition between linguistic variants, the value of modern linguistic theory for the study of linguistic variation, and the interplay between various dimensions of variation. They focus on various stages of the Greek language (Archaic, Classical, Post-classical, and Byzantine), taking both qualitative and quantitative approaches. By doing so, they offer valuable insights in the multi-faced nature of the Greek verbal system, providing an incentive towards the further study of linguistic variation and change.
The Use of the Subjunctive and Optative Moods in the Non-literary Papyri
Author: Forrest Bee Ashby
Publisher:
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Category : Cestus
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cestus
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Use of the Optative Mood in the Works of St. John Chrysostom
Author: Frederick Walter Augustine Dickinson
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Use of the Subjunctive and Optative Moods in the Non-literary Papyri
Author: Robert Chisolm Horn
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Moods of Homeric Greek
Author: Jo Willmott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521879884
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A 2007 account of the origin and development of the grammatical moods in Greek.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521879884
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A 2007 account of the origin and development of the grammatical moods in Greek.