Form and Function in Greek Grammar (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 30)

Albert Rijksbaron is internationally known as one of the leading scholars of the Ancient Greek language, whose work has exerted a strong and lasting influence on the scholarly debate concerning many aspects of Greek linguistics. This volume brings together twenty of his papers, two of which have been translated into English and some which are not easily accessible elsewhere. The selection represents the full range of Rijksbaron’s research, including papers on central topics in Greek linguistics such as tense-aspect, mood, voice, particles, negation, the article, questions, discourse analysis, as well as on the views of ancient grammarians and modern commentators. As a whole, the volume shows how much linguistic analysis can contribute to our understanding of Greek literary texts.

Albert Rijksbaron (Amsterdam 1943) studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1968, majoring in Ancient Greek Linguistics, and was appointed assistant professor in the same year. In 1976 he defended his thesis on Temporal and Causal Conjunctions in Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. In 2000 he was appointed full professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics in Amsterdam. He retired in 2005.

Rutger J. Allan, PhD Amsterdam 2002, is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Free University Amsterdam. He is the author of The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study in Polysemy (2003) and co-editor of the volumes The Language of Literature (2007) and The Greek Future and its History (2017).

Evert van Emde Boas, DPhil Oxford 2011, is Leventis Research Fellow of Ancient Greek at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Language and Character in Euripides’ Electra (OUP 2017), lead author of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP 2018), and co-editor of Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2018).

Luuk Huitink: DPhil University of Oxford 2012; postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. co-author of Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2018); author, with Tim Rood, of Xenophon. Anabasis III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, Cambridge 2018); co-editor of Experience, Narrative and Literary Criticism in Ancient Greece (Oxford, in press).