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Particles (Formal Features)
(5,242 words)

Abstract

The term ‘particle’ (from Lat. particula ‘a small part’) in Greek linguistic terminology denotes a group of ‘small’ indeclinable words which are synsemantic, i.e., they neither carry lexical (autosemantic) meaning nor are they deictic, but their meaning can only be drawn from the contextual connection with autosemantics or dei…

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Kateřina Bočková Loudová, “Particles (Formal Features)”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis. Consulted online on 22 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000273>
First published online: 2013



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