Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis
Associate Editors: Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi, Stephanos Matthaios
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) is a unique work that brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is an indispensable research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.
Subscriptions: brill.comHyperbaton
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Abstract Hyperbaton refers to discontinuous syntactic structure which crosscuts all phrasal levels. It has been described as both a syntactic phenomenon and a rhetorical device. Two major types of hyperbaton have been identified in Classical Greek: the Y1 hyperbaton and the Y2 hyperbaton, the former being a formal reversal of the latter. The mirror-image relation between the two can be accounted for by primitives of information structure like topic and focus. Phrasal discontinuity is also manipulated for clause demarcation in discourse structuring. 1. Introduction The term ‘hype…
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2013-11-01
Hyphaeresis
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Abstract See Apocope See Elision See Aphaeresis Bibliography
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2014-01-27
Hypocoristics
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Abstract See Diminutives/Augmentatives (Syntax and Morphology) Bibliography
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2014-01-27