On the meaning of prepositions and cases : the expression of semantic roles in ancient Greek / Silvia Luraghi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luraghi, Silvia, 1958-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 67.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Prepositions.

Greek language.

Greek language--Semantics.

Greek language--Case.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development. The book, based on a wide, diachronically ordered corpus, aims at providing a usage-based analysis of possible patterns of semantic extension, including the mapping of abstract domains onto the concrete domain of space. An analysis of the Greek data further highlights the interplay between specific spatial relations and the internal structure of the entities involved, and shows how case semantics may account for differences on the referential level, rather than merely express clause internal relations. The first chapter contains a typologically based discussion of semantic roles, which sets the language-specific analysis in a wider framework, showing its general relevance and applicability.

Contents:

On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction

0.0. Aims of the book

0.1. Ancient Greek

0.1.1. Accessibility of Ancient Greek data

0.1.2. Greek varieties

0.1.3. Parts of speech and inflectional categories

0.2. Texts used for this book

0.2.1. The Homeric poems

0.2.2. Herodotus' Histories

0.2.3. Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars

0.2.4. Plato's Dialogues

0.2.5. Aristotle

0.2.6. Other Attic authors

0.2.7. Xenophon

0.2.8. Later works

0.3. Some remarks on the glosses

Theoretical foundations

1.0. Introduction

1.1. The meaning of grammatical forms

1.1.1. Lexical meaning

1.1.2. `Grammatical' and `concrete' (uses of) cases

1.1.3. `New' and `old' metaphors

1.1.4. Mental maps

1.2. Semantic roles

1.2.1. Space

1.2.2. Time

1.2.3. Comitative

1.2.4. Causal semantic roles

1.2.5. Recipient

1.2.6. Beneficiary

1.2.7. Experiencer

1.2.8. Possessor

1.2.9. Purpose

1.2.10. Patient

1.2.11. Manner

1.2.12. Area

The semantics of Greek cases

2.0. Introduction

2.1. Case syncretism

2.1.1. Case syncretism as a diachronic process

2.1.2. Genitive and ablative

2.1.3. Dative, locative, and instrumental

2.2. The meaning of cases without prepositions

2.2.1. The accusative

2.2.2. The genitive

2.2.3. The dative

2.3. The sub-system of local cases and its substitutes

Greek prepositions

3.0. Introduction

3.0.1. Categorial status

3.0.2. Phrase structure

3.0.3. Case variation

3.0.4. Position of the particles in Homer

Conclusions

4.0. Introduction

4.1. Spatial meaning of the prepositions

4.2. Paths of semantic extension and abstract uses of prepositions

4.2.1. Time

4.2.2. Comitative

4.2.3. Agent.

4.2.4. Instrument

4.2.5. Intermediary

4.2.6. Cause

4.2.7. Recipient/Addressee

4.2.8. Beneficiary

4.2.9. Possessor

4.2.10. Purpose

4.2.11. Area

4.2.12. Summary of possible semantic extensions

4.3. Distribution of cases within PPs

4.3.1. The prepositional genitive

4.3.2. The prepositional dative

4.3.3. The prepositional accusative

4.4. Further developments

Notes

References

Name index

Subject index

The STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-358) and index.

ISBN:

9786612160721

9781282160729

1282160729

9789027295910

9027295913

OCLC:

227038149