Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

ISBN-13: 9780198712404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Katerina Chatzopoulou

Opis

This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek, based on extensive data from major stages of the language. It also provides a new semantic interpretation of Jespersen's cycle that explains the Greek developments and those in other languages.

Recenzje

Overall, the book is clear and well-organized. It presents a coherent view of the (non)veridicality theory diachronically through the study of Greek negation. The book would make a great addition to the libraries of semanticists, historical linguists and anyone else requiring a book providing synchronic and diachronic evidence and a novel perspective on the much-discussed phenomenon of negation.

O autorze

Katerina Chatzopoulou is an Instructor in Linguistics at New York College in Thessaloniki and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests range from historical semantics and language change to evolutionary epistemology and the popularization of science. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2012 in the field of historical syntax and semantics, and her work has appeared in a variety of international journals and edited volumes.