Use this URL to cite or link to this record in EThOS: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431175 |
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Title: | Word order, focus, and clause linking in Greek tragic poetry | ||||||
Author: | Fraser, Bruce L. |
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0000 0001 3483 321X
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Awarding Body: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
Date of Award: | 1999 | ||||||
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The thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to the structure of compound and complex sentences. The discussion undertakes a systematic survey of subject, verb, and object order in a corpus of texts, proposes an explanation for the observed order, and develops a model which explains how prominence within the clause is exploited in clause linking to produce the complement structures observed in Homeric and tragic complementation.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | British Academy ; Cambridge Faculty of Classics | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.431175 | DOI: | |||||
Keywords: | historical linguistics ; Ancient Greek literature ; word order ; syntax ; Greek tragedy ; complementation ; focalisation ; clausal subordination ; comparing poetry and prose ; enclitics ; topic and focus | ||||||
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