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

Richard Faure

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Publisher's Synopsis

Adapting tools recently developed in general linguistics and dwelling on a solid corpus study, this book offers the first comprehensive view on Classical Greek wh-clauses since Monteil (1963) and scrutinizes how wh-items ((Sr&"w(B, (Sr&"vxlw(B, (Sxl"w(B) distribute across the different clause types. False ideas are discarded (e.g., there are no (Sxl"w(B relative clauses, (Sr&"vxlw(B does not take over (Sr&"w(B' functions). This essay furthermore teases apart actual neutralization and so-far-unknown subtle distinctions. Who knew that (Sr&"vxlw(B is featured in three different types of appositive clauses? In the interrogative domain, an analysis is given of what licenses (Sr&"w(B to pop in and (Sxl"w(B to pop out. Tackling these topics and more, this essay draws a coherent picture of the wh-clause system, whose basis is the notion of (non)identification.

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