The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

Author:

Evert van Emde Boas, University of Oxford
Albert Rijksbaron, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Luuk Huitink, Universiteit Leiden
Mathieu de Bakker, Universiteit van Amsterdam

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March 2019

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9780521127295

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This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters on phonology and morphology make full use of insights from comparative and historical linguistics to elucidate complex systems of roots, stems and endings. The syntax offers linguistically up-to-date descriptions of such topics as case usage, tense and aspect, voice, subordinate clauses, infinitives and participles. An innovative section on textual coherence treats particles and word order and discusses several sample passages in detail, demonstrating new ways of approaching Greek texts. Throughout the book numerous original examples are provided, all with translations and often with clarifying notes. Clearly laid-out tables, helpful cross-references and full indexes make this essential resource accessible to users of all levels.

The first comprehensive grammar of Classical Greek in English for a century, combining traditional grammatical description with the latest insights from general and Greek linguistics presented in a theoretically neutral fashion
Contains a wealth of original examples taken from all genres of Classical Greek literature in order to help the reader understand actual usage in ancient texts
Includes a section on textual coherence, without parallel in other grammars, which discusses particles and word order and uses a close analysis of four sample passages in order to illustrate the ways in which these and other features work together

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Published: March 2019
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521127295
Length: 852 pages
Dimensions: 246 × 173 × 37 mm
Weight: 1.6kg
Contains: 5 b/w illus. 130 tables
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Contents

Preface
Abbreviations, symbols, editions
On terminology
Part I. Phonology and Morphology:
1. The signs and sounds of Classical Greek
2. Introduction to nominal forms
3. The article
4. Nouns
5. Adjectives and participles
6. Adverbs
7. Pronouns
8. Correlative pronouns and adverbs
9. Numerals
10. The dual: nominal forms
11. Introduction to verb forms
12. The present
13. The aorist: active and middle
14. The aorist: passive
15. The future: active and middle
16. The future: passive
17. The perfect (and future perfect): introduction
18. The perfect: active
19. The perfect: middle-passive
20. The future perfect
21. The dual: verb forms
22. Principal parts
23. Word formation
24. Accentuation
25. Ionic and other dialects
Part II. Syntax:
26. Introduction to simple sentences
27. Agreement
28. The article
29. Pronouns and quantifiers
30. Cases
31. Prepositions
32. Comparison
33. The verb: tense and aspect
34. The verb: mood
35. The verb: voice
36. Impersonal constructions
37. Verbal adjectives
38. Questions, directives, wishes, exclamations
39. Introduction to complex sentences
40. Introduction to finite subordinate clauses
41. Indirect statements
42. Indirect questions and indirect exclamations
43. Fear clauses
44. Effort clauses
45. Purpose clauses
46. Result clauses
47. Temporal clauses
48. Causal clauses
49. Conditional clauses
50. Relative clauses
51. The infinitive
52. The participle
53. Overview of subordinate constructions
54. Overview of moods
55. Overview of the uses of ἄν
56. Overview of negatives
57. Overview of the uses of ὡς
Part III. Textual Coherence:
58. Introduction
59. Particles
60. Word order
61. Four sample passages
Bibliography
Indexes.

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Authors

Evert van Emde Boas , University of Oxford
Evert van Emde Boas is Leventis Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He has previously held teaching and research positions at four universities in the Netherlands, and at the Calleva Research Centre at Magdalen College, Oxford. He specializes in the application of modern linguistic and cognitive approaches to ancient Greek literature, and is the author of a monograph and several articles on Greek tragedy.
Albert Rijksbaron , Universiteit van Amsterdam
Albert Rijksbaron is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek Linguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His publications include Temporal and Causal Conjunctions in Ancient Greek (1976), the widely used The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek (1984; 3rd edition 2007), Grammatical Observations on Euripides' Bacchae (1991), a highly acclaimed edition with a (linguistically oriented) commentary of Plato's Ion (2007), as well as numerous articles on Greek linguistics. He is also the editor of the collective volume New Approaches to Greek Particles (1997), and co-editor of Sophocles and the Greek Language (2006) and The Historical Present in Thucydides (2011).
Luuk Huitink , Universiteit Leiden
Luuk Huitink as taught at the University of Oxford and the Universiteit Leiden. A trained classicist and linguist, he is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the European Research Council (ERC) Project 'Ancient Narrative' at Universität Heidelberg, where he examines the relationship between ancient rhetoric and cognitive linguistics in order to shed light on the ancient readerly imagination. He is also, together with Tim Rood, preparing a commentary on Xenophon's Anabasis III for the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (which will be keyed to this Grammar). He is the author of several articles on linguistics and narratological topics in classical and post-classical Greek.
Mathieu de Bakker , Universiteit van Amsterdam
Mathieu de Bakker is university lecturer in the Department of Classics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, where he teaches courses on all aspects of ancient Greek. He has published on the Greek historians and orators, and is co-editor of Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus' Histories (2012).

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