Negatives and Noun Phrases in Classical Greek: An Investigation Based on the Corpus Platonicum

ISBN-13: 9783631306772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 158 str.

Eva-Carin Gero

Opis

The use in Classical Greek of the two negatives, "ov" and "un," in noun phrases is a much-debated matter in the literature on Greek grammar. Several, sometimes interrelated, factors have been adduced as decisive for the choice of negative in such cases - the predominant one being that of reference. Already a brief survey of almost any Greek text, however shows that there is a considerable overlap between the employment of "ov" and "un" in the uses which the grammarians distinguish. The present study investigates in a consequent fashion the use of the two negatives in noun phrases in the works of Plato. A new picture of negation in Greek noun phrases is thus gradually built up, where the interplay between "ov" and "un" in such cases is described in a more consistent way than by the earlier accounts.

Spis treści

Contents: Negation in Greek noun phrases - Reference - Genericity - Attributive versus referential use of noun phrases - Presupposition - Constituent negation.

O autorze

The Author. Eva-Carin Gerö received her doctoral degree at the University of Tübingen in 1996. She is presently working on various other topics in Greek grammar - again with a focus on semantics.