Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse

Michel Buijs

ISBN 10: 9004142509 / ISBN 13: 9789004142503

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Dez 2004, 2004

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Neuware - This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach.The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information ?ow in on-going discourse.The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Dez 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004142509
• ISBN 13: 9789004142503
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 18D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 583 grams

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Synopsis

This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach.
The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information flow in on-going discourse.
The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.

About the Author

Michel Buijs, Ph.D. (2003) in Arts, Leiden University, teaches Greek and Latin at the Faculties of Theology of Leiden and Utrecht University. He has been working on discourse linguistics and Greek language description for several years.