30.494, Books: Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek: Chatzopoulou

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Subject: 30.494, Books: Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek: Chatzopoulou

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:46:02
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek: Chatzopoulou

 


Title: Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/negation-and-nonveridicality-in-the-history-of-greek-9780198712404 


Author: Katerina Chatzopoulou

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198712404 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential
negation in the history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from
texts dating from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine,
and Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative data from all stages of the
language, from Homeric Greek to Standard Modern Greek. Katerina Chatzopoulou
accounts for the contrast between the two complementary negators found in
Greek, referred to as a NEG1 and NEG2, in terms of the latter's sensitivity to
nonveridicality, and explains the asymmetry observed in the diachronic
development of the Greek negator system. The volume also sets out a new
interpretation of Jespersen's cycle, which abstracts away from the
morphosyntactic and phonological properties of the phenomenon and proposes
instead that it is best understood in semantic terms. This approach not only
explains the patterns observed in Greek, but also those found in other
languages that deviate from the traditional description of Jespersen's cycle.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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