TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldstein,David M.
TI  - Classical Greek syntax: Wackernagel's law in Herodotus 
T2  - Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics
SN  - 9789004250680
AV  - PA367 .G65 2015
U1  - 485 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Herodotus.
KW  - Wackernagel, Jacob,
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Syntax
N1  - Revision of thesis; Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Greek Syntax and Surface Word Order -- The Prosody of Greek Clitics -- The Syntax of Clitics -- Topicalization -- Focus Preposing -- Participles -- Infinitive Complements -- Conclusion and Prospects -- Bibliography -- Indexes; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus , David Goldstein offers the first theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the long-standing belief that Greek word order is ‟free” or beyond the reach of systematic analysis. On the basis of Herodotus’ Histories, he demonstrates that there are in fact systematic correspondences between clause structure and meaning. Crucial to this new model of the Greek clause is Wackernagel’s Law, the generalization that enclitics and postpositives occur in ‟second position,” as these classes of words provide a stable anchor for analyzing sentence structure. The results of this work not only restore word order as an interpretive dimension of Greek texts, but also provide a framework for the investigation of other areas of syntax in Greek, as well as archaic Indo-European more broadly
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004250680
ER  -