Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek

305 Pages·2009·1.19 MB·English

by  Stéphanie J. Bakker, Gerry Wakker

Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek
Amsterdam Studies in
Classical Philology
Edited by
Albert Rijksbaron
Irene J.F. de Jong
Caroline Kroon
VOLUME 16
Discourse Cohesion in
Ancient Greek
Edited by
Stéphanie Bakker and Gerry Wakker
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2009
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wakker, Gerry.
Discourse cohesion in ancient Greek / by Stephanie Bakker, Gerry Wakker.
p. cm. — (Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; v. 16)
Papers presented at the 6th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics,
held June 27–29, 2007, Groningen, Netherlands.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-17472-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Greek language—Verb—
Congresses. 2. Greek language—Particles—Congresses. 3. Greek language—Tense—
Congresses. 4. Cohesion (Linguistics)—Congresses. 5. Discourse analysis—Congresses.
I. Bakker, Stéphanie J. II. Title.
PA337.W35 2009
485—dc22
2009023935
ISSN 1380-6068
ISBN 978 90 04 17472 6
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CONTENTS
List of contributors ............................................................................ vii
Preface .................................................................................................. ix
Introduction ........................................................................................ xi
Stéphanie J. Bakker and Gerry C. Wakker
Chapter One Discourse Cohesion Th rough Th ird Person
Pronouns. Th e Case of κεῖνος and αὐτός in Homer ................ 1
Anna Bonifazi
Chapter Two Pragmatic Presupposition and
Complementation in Classical Greek ......................................... 21
Luuk Huitink
Chapter Th ree On the Curious Combination of the Particles
γάρ and οὖν .................................................................................... 41
Stéphanie J. Bakker
Chapter Four ‘Well I Will Now Present My Arguments’.
Discourse Cohesion Marked by οὖν and τοίνυν in Lysias ...... 63
Gerry C. Wakker
Chapter Five Th e Particles αὖ and αὖτε in Ancient Greek as
Topicalizing Devices ...................................................................... 83
Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers
Chapter Six Καὶ μήν, καὶ δή and ἤδη in Τragedy and
Comedy ........................................................................................... 111
A. Maria van Erp Taalman Kip
Chapter Seven Dicourse Cohesion in Dialogue.
Turn-Initial ἀλλά in Greek Drama ............................................. 135
Annemieke Drummen
Chapter Eight Greek Particles: Just a Literary
Phenomenon? ................................................................................. 155
Coulter H. George
vi contents
Chapter Nine Towards a Typology of the Narrative Modes
in Ancient Greek. Text Types and Narrative Structure in
Euripidean Messenger Speeches .................................................. 171
Rutger J. Allan
Chapter Ten Th e Use of the Imperfect to Express Completed
States of Aff airs. Th e Imperfect as a Marker of Narrative
Cohesion ......................................................................................... 205
Louis Basset
Chapter Eleven Involving the Past in the Present.
Th e Classical Greek Perfect as a Situating Cohesion Device 221
Sander Orriens
Chapter Twelve Discourse Cohesion in the Proem of Hesiod’s
Th eogony .......................................................................................... 241
Albert Rijksbaron
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 267
Index Locorum ................................................................................... 279
General Index ..................................................................................... 283
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Rutger J. Allan is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the
VU University Amsterdam
Stéphanie J. Bakker is a postdoc fellow at Leiden University and
teaches Greek at the University of Groningen
Louis Basset is emeritus professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics,
Lumière University Lyon 2
Anna Bonifazi is holder of an Outgoing International Marie Curie
Fellowship (2005–2008), Harvard University (Classics) and University
of Turin (Center for Cognitive Science)
Annemieke Drummen is MA student of Classics at the VU University
Amsterdam
A. Maria van Erp Taalman Kip is emeritus professor of Ancient
Greek, University of Amsterdam
Coulter H. George is an assistant professor in the Department of
Classics at the University of Virginia
Luuk Huitink is PhD student of Classics and teaches Greek at Oxford
University
Sander Orriens is MA student of Classics at the University of Groningen
Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers is a Lecturer in the Department
of Classics at Madrid Autonomous University
Albert Rijksbaron is emeritus professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics,
University of Amsterdam
Gerry C. Wakker is professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics at the
University of Groningen

PREFACE
In 1986 the Department of Classics at the University of Amsterdam ini-
tiated a series of International Colloquia on Ancient Greek Linguistics.
Within this framework every fourth or fi ft h year a new colloquium is
organised on a specifi c theme: grammatical questions (Amsterdam);
the language of Homer (Grenoble); particles (Amsterdam), comple-
ment clauses (Saint Étienne), word classes (Madrid). Th e 6th edition
of this International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics on the
theme of (phenomena of) discourse cohesion took place in Groningen
(the Netherlands) from June 27th to 29th 2007. Th is colloquium was
the starting point for the present volume Discourse Cohesion in Ancient
Greek in that most of the contributions are revised versions of papers
presented and discussed at the colloquium.
It is our pleasure to thank a number of organizations and persons
for their support. First of all, we would like thank the GUF (Stichting
Groninger Universiteitsfonds), the research institute CLCG (Center of
Language and Cognition Groningen), OIKOS (the National Research
School in Classical Studies) and the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences) for their fi nancial support of the colloquium. Our
(former) students Maarten van Putten, Patricia Spuij and above all Inez
van Egeraat and Sander Orriens provided a lot of practical help. Sander
Orriens was also of great help in the fi nal stage of the realization of the
volume, when the various contributions had to be converted into one
coherent typescript. Furthermore, we are grateful to the authors for their
patience and their willingness to revise their contribution. Finally, we
would like to thank the editors of this series Albert Rijksbaron, Caroline
Kroon and Irene de Jong, the anonymous reviewer, and Brill for their
help and valuable comments and suggestions.
Groningen, March 2009
Stéphanie Bakker
Gerry Wakker