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100	1		_aRoi, Ezra la, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek : _bAspect, Modality and Typology / _cEzra la Roi.
246	3		_aAspect, Modality and Typology
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c2026.
264		4	_c©2026
300			_a1 online resource (296 pages) : _billustrations.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEmpirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; _v25
490	1		_aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tEditorial Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Glosses, abbreviations and transliteration -- Part 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Scope and structure of the work -- 1.2 Tense, aspect and actionality in counterfactuality -- 1.3 The pragmatics of counterfactuality -- 1.4 Counterfactuality and polarity reversal -- 1.5 Counterfactuality and modality -- 1.6 Counterfactuality and morphosyntactic distribution -- 1.7 Counterfactual speech acts: towards a functional typology -- 1.8 The diachrony of counterfactual patterns -- 1.9 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals -- 2 Corpus collection for the history of Greek -- 2.1 Corpus analysis and contrastive corpus surveys -- Part 2 -- 3 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Ancient Greek ( VIII   BCE – IV   BCE ) -- 3.1 The optative in Indo-European, Archaic Greek and early Indo-European languages -- 3.2 Counterfactual mood and insubordination from Archaic to Classical Greek -- 3.3 The life cycles of counterfactual mood from Archaic to Classical Greek -- 3.4 Diffusion and analogy of the counterfactual indicative -- 3.5 Counterfactuality transfer, subordination and the modal particles in Ancient Greek -- 3.6 The past counterfactuality, habituality and genericity pathway in Ancient Greek -- 3.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Ancient Greek -- 3.8 Archaic Greek counterfactual modal verbs -- 3.9 Classical Greek counterfactual modal verbs, frequency and language ecology -- 3.10 Temporal reference shift and modal paths out of counterfactuality -- 3.11 Analogy and the morphosyntax of counterfactual modal verbs -- 3.12 Avertives in Ancient Greek: aspect, actionality and modality -- 3.13 Summary and looking ahead -- 4 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Postclassical Greek ( III   BCE – VI   CE ) -- 4.1 Measuring the impact of register on counterfactual life cycles -- 4.2 Aspect, temporal reference shift and the counterfactual indicative -- 4.3 Counterfactuals in contact in Post-Classical Greek -- 4.4 Pragmatics, analogy and the alleged loss of the counterfactual modal particle -- 4.5 Reinforcements of the counterfactual indicative in wishes -- 4.6 The life cycles of counterfactual indicatives in high register contexts -- 4.7 The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Postclassical Greek -- 4.8 Avertives in Postclassical Greek: continuity and change -- 4.9 Summary and looking ahead -- 5 The life cycles of counterfactuals in Medieval and Modern Greek ( VII   CE –now) -- 5.1 Counterfactuals and avertives in Medieval Greek -- 5.2 Counterfactuals and avertives in Modern Greek -- Part 3 -- 6 The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals Cross-linguistically -- 6.1 The life cycles of counterfactuals in the history of Greek -- 6.2 The life cycles of counterfactuals across Indo-European language histories -- 6.3 Towards a diachronic typology of counterfactuals -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Greek Index.
520			_aWe constantly refer to counterfactual events—things that didn’t happen but could have—through conditional, wish, and modal constructions. Yet, despite their ubiquity, we still know surprisingly little about how these constructions have evolved across languages and through history. This book breaks new ground by tracing, for the first time, the development of counterfactual systems across different constructions, texts, linguistic registers, and historical stages. Drawing on extensive corpus data from Indo-European languages and nearly three millennia of Greek, it offers the first unified account of counterfactual and avertive constructions as core expressions of non-realization. In doing so, it also proposes a revised model of the counterfactual life cycle—one that integrates semantic, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic dimensions—providing typologists with a powerful framework for exploring how counterfactual expressions evolve across languages.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aClassical Studies.
650		0	_aGreek & Latin Linguistics.
650		0	_aHistorical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology.
650		0	_aIndo-European Languages.
650		0	_aLanguages and Linguistics.
650		0	_aMorphology & Syntax.
650		0	_aPragmatics & Discourse Analysis.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tThe Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek : Aspect, Modality and Typology. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026. _z9789004749924 _w(OCoLC)1527885090
830		0	_aEmpirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; _v25.
830		0	_aLanguage and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004749931
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