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Original Paper selection Einar Haugen German historical linguistics Relativisers Standardisation

Original Paper selection Einar Haugen German historical linguistics Relativisers Standardisation

In the paper, an examination is made of prolepsis in ancient Greek, concentrating on its grammatical and prosodic structure. The feature is analyzed not as a stylistic curiosity, but as a syntactically anacoluthic construction...

historical linguistics Ancient Greek literature complementation prolepsis clause structure prosody anacoluthon

The paper undertakes an examination of the start of the Greek clause, adopting a prosodic approach with two inter-related stages. Firstly, the functions of initial elements are analyzed in terms of their prosodic prominence...

historical linguistics Ancient Greek literature clause structure syntax prosody and intonation enclitic particles focus and topic complementation clause linking focalisation and emphasis

Norwegian syntax syntactic variation historical linguistics null arguments

The paper comprises an investigation of the order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) in Greek stichic verse, and includes the first study of regular word order in Greek tragedy. It is shown that there is...

historical linguistics Ancient Greek literature syntax word order subject verb and object order poetry and prose prosodic prominence morphological weight