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Author:   Richard Faure
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   34
Weight:   0.613kg
ISBN:  

9789004467521

ISBN 10:   9004467521
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Tables and Figures 1 The Landscape of Wh-clauses in Classical Greek 1 Three Paradigms of wh-items in Classical Greek 2 The Nature of wh-items 3 What This Book Is Not About 4 About the Chapters of This Book Part 1 The Framework 2 / Form a Pair of Complementary Items 1 The Uses 2 The Difference between and 3 Generalizing: The Notion of Identification 4 Conclusion 3 Bringing into the Picture 1 Uses Common to and 2 and in Indirect Interrogative Clauses 3 Meaning 4 Meaning 5 Conclusion Part 2 Marginal Cases 4 The Clash between Definite Terms and as Pragmatic Disagreement 1 Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item 2 Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ] 3 'Causal' as an Illocutionary Operator 4 Illocutionary Is Nonidentificational 5 Conclusion 5 Complement Wh-clauses and the Predicates That Embed Them 1 Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in the Landscape of Propositional Attitude Predicates 2 Classification Based on Denotations of Interrogative Clauses 3 The Distribution of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in Classical Greek 4 Conclusion 6 (and ) in Unselected Embedded Questions 1 Wh- vs. Yes/No-Unselected Embedded Questions 2 Previous Approaches to wh-UEQs 3 The Left Periphery of wh-UEQ 4 A Type-Shifting Account for wh-UEQs 5 Concluding Remarks 7 The Origin of Interrogatives 1 Clauses as Interrogatives 2 Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates 3 Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments 4 Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and Clauses 5 From Relative to Interrogative Clauses 6 Concluding Remarks 8 Wh-exclamative Clauses 1 Classical Greek Data 2 Exclamatives as Presupposed Propositions 3 Focus: What We Learn from Syntax 4 Scalarity, Degree, Widening and Unexpectedness 5 Concluding Remarks 9 The Ups and Downs of Classical Greek Wh-items 1 Identification as the Key Notion 2 Semantic vs. Traditional Syntactic Classification in Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives 3 Three Words of Diachrony 4 Final Word Appendix: Constructions and Classification of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates References Index Locorum Index Notionum et Rerum

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Richard Faure (Phd, Sorbonne 2010) is Maitre de conferences (associate professor) at Universite Cote d'Azur. He specializes in Ancient and general linguistics. He published extensively on subordination at the syntax/semantics interface on Greek, but also on Armenian, French, Occitan.

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