{"title":"Discourse marker development in epistolary contexts: Ἰδού ‘look!’ in the Greek epistolary papyri","authors":"Patryk Jan Bratuś","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02401002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02401002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper I analyse the shifting usage of the Discourse Marker <styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">ἰδού</styled-content> in the Greek papyri corpora of epistolary nature dating from the 3rd c. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">BC</span> to the 5th c. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">AD</span>. My methodology is largely based on the account of grammaticalization as presented in Traugott and Dasher (2001), and pays particular attention to the questions of pragmatic inference, syntactic scope, modality and politeness. I claim that the distribution of usages we find in the papyri corpora can be understood as an outcome of development of <styled-content lang=\"el-Grek\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">ἰδού</styled-content> alongside several different paths: first from an exophoric deictic marker to an endophoric deictic marker, and then from a deictic marker to a marker of epistemic force and adversativity, an emphatic marker and a marker of reproach, and a politeness marker.</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141146074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Construction Morphology account for Ancient Greek accentuation","authors":"Junyu Ruan","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02401001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02401001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Word formation is often considered in many phonological studies to involve concatenation of morphemes. However, a morpheme-based morphological analysis runs into difficulties when dealing with accentuation patterns in Ancient Greek. On the one hand, Ancient Greek adjectives suffixed with -<em>es</em> and -<em>to</em> show different accentuation patterns that cannot be easily accounted for by assigning accentual properties to the morphemes they contain. On the other hand, forms with contracted vowels show that the assignment of lexical accent and default accent occurs at different cycles in phonology. This paper proposes a word-based model that is developed within the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij 2005; 2007; 2010) for phonological analysis: word formation is based on analogical parallelism among morphologically related word forms, which is modeled as the instantiation of schemata. Accentual properties are considered idiosyncrasies of schemata, and the observed accentuation patterns can be accounted for via two cycles within the Optimality Theory (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">OT</span>) framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141146077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the representation and realization of the Ancient Greek acute: Evidence from tone-tune mappings in Ancient Greek music","authors":"Ryan Sandell, Dieter Gunkel","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02401004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02401004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study addresses the phonological representation and phonetic realization of pitch patterns found on or near prosodically prominent syllables in Ancient Greek, namely, the distinction between the so-called “acute” and “circumflex” accents. Empirically, we investigate in detail the correlation between tones and tunes in the Delphic hymns (<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">DAGM</span> 20 and 21) on syllables capable of bearing a circumflex accent (i.e., syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong = <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllables). This data supports two major findings. First, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllables with circumflex accent are significantly more likely to be set to a melism than <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllables that are acute, grave, or unaccented, and, moreover, the proportion of melismatic settings among acute, unaccented, and grave <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllables does not significantly differ. Second, circumflex melisms consistently (always or nearly so) fall in pitch (on average, by three semitones), whereas acute and unaccented melisms may either rise or fall (on average, by 1.5–2.25 semitones in either direction). Taken together, this data conforms to the usual description of the circumflex as a falling pitch, [H L], but speaks against claims that the acute constitutes a rising pitch ([L H], or High alone aligned with the latter portion of a <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllable, [∅ H]). We instead conclude that the acute represents a single High pitch target phonologically mapped to the entirety of a <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">VV</span>-syllable, and discuss the implications for the phonological analysis of the prosody of Ancient Greek in light of the typology of contour tones.</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141145940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sense of ksénos in Ancient Greek: Prototypical schematicity and blending in a complex praxis","authors":"Georgios Ioannou","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02302001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02302001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present work looks at the term <em>ksénos</em> as an access point to the enacted model of hospitality—<em>ksenía</em>—in ancient Greece. It deduces the onomasiological and semasiological spread of the term across the model’s participants, namely <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">GUEST</span>, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">STRANGER</span> but also <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">HOST</span>, into a schematic prototypical core within a complex and dynamic conceptual integration model. Along the spatial continuum of <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">DISTANCE</span>-<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">APPROACHING</span>-<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">PROXIMITY</span>, the analysis looks into <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">APPROACHING</span> as an emergent space, where <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">GIFT</span>-<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">EXCHANGE</span> is interpreted as a process of mental-space shift on the part of a stable <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">SELF</span> confronting the incoming <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">OTHER</span>. <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">POSSESSIONS EXCHANGE</span> conceptualised as non-commodifiable and non-alienable to the giver activates the metaphorical relation <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">HAVE</span> as <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">BE</span>. Thus, the abrupt confrontation is accommodated as an <em>ad hoc</em> partial substitutability of each participant’s identity by the identity of the other. Some Proto-Indo-European etymologies proposed in literature for the term are reviewed, and their compatibility with the present analysis is evaluated.</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derivational morphology in Modern Greek: The State of the Art","authors":"Nikos Koutsoukos, Angeliki Efthymiou","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02302002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02302002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Derivational morphology is an umbrella term used for concatenative and non-concatenative processes for the formation of new lexemes. In Modern Greek, derivational morphology is one of the major morphological processes along with compounding and inflection. In recent years, research on derivational morphology has evolved rapidly. We present here the state-of-the-art on the recent advances in the derivational morphology of Modern Greek. First, we present affixational derivation by focusing on the main features of the derivational affixes used in Modern Greek and then we present the non-concatenative derivational processes. We also discuss the main theoretical issues related to derivational morphology, that is, constraints, competition and productivity of derivational patterns, and the main theoretical approaches to Modern Greek derivational structures. Finally, we present some general themes of derivational morphology, including the relationship between derivation and other morphological processes and the role of derivational morphology in scientific terminology, language teaching/lexicography and psycholinguistics. We aim to contribute to better understanding of how morphology works by highlighting the potential of research on derivational morphology in Modern Greek.</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthetic-analytic variation in the formation of Greek comparatives and relative superlatives","authors":"Foteini Karkaletsou, Artemis Alexiadou","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02302003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02302003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many adjectives in Modern Greek form both synthetic and analytic comparatives and relative superlatives. To our knowledge, this is the first work to examine the triggers of the Synthetic-Analytic (S-A) variation in this language by means of a corpus study. To date, numerous studies have shown that a series of predictors (phonological, lexical, syntactic) appear to influence the S-A variation in English. The present paper focuses on some factors mentioned in the existing literature (e.g., frequency, number of syllables, syntactic position etc.) alongside Text Type, which is explicitly used as a predictor for the first time. Overall, our results suggest that 1) the S-A variation seems to be influenced by similar predictors cross-linguistically and 2) comparatives and relative superlatives show a partially different picture in Modern Greek, as is also the case in English (Cheung & Zhang 2016).</p>","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"159 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I haven’t got a clue!’: Assessing negation in classical Greek support-verb constructions","authors":"Victoria Beatrix Fendel","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02302004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02302004","url":null,"abstract":"Support-verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that act as the predicate, as ‘made the suggestion’ in I made the suggestion that she join. They are frequent, variable, and ambiguous across texts, as well as language-specific in their lexical and syntactic properties. The article examines patterns of negation with δίκην δίδωμι ‘to pay the price for one’s actions’, ὅπλα ἔχω ‘to be armed’, and συμμαχίαν ποιέομαι ‘to ally up’ in classical literary Attic. Syntactically and lexically, support-verb constructions can behave like a word or like a syntagm. A word does not have an internal syntax but only an external one; a syntagm has an internal syntax. Negation in support-verb constructions can be achieved either morpho-syntactically or lexically as long as the syntagm character has not faded. Morpho-syntactically, support-verb constructions can be negated by drawing on their external or their internal syntax. Lexical negation can be achieved by means of negative verbs of realisation indicating a zero-degree of multiplication. If available for a support-verb construction, lexical negation appears to add a nuance of intensity; morpho-syntactic negation appears primarily in contrastive contexts.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138538998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brief notices","authors":"Brian D. Joseph","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02301006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02301006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136021218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extraction and normalization of IR indexing terms and phrases in a highly inflectional language","authors":"Panagiotis Gakis, Theodoros Kokkinos, C. Tsalidis","doi":"10.1163/15699846-02301001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-02301001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Term-based indexing of documents is conventionally implemented by stemmers or their corpus-based improvements, both of which encode implicit linguistic information. Terms are directly derived from document content such that a unique indexing approach is available at indexing run-time. For highly inflectional languages where term variation is high, such techniques are more error-prone. The main focus of the current study is the extraction and normalization of single terms and phrases and the proposal of authenticated control of indexing. The proposed approach relies on the use of explicit linguistic knowledge, appropriately encoded in large language resources. Such control guarantees the highest possible expansion factor for indexing terms as well as indexing consistency. Moreover, it offers a framework where different and eventually contradicting indexing criteria can be practiced, conventional and Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based Information Retrieval (IR) applications can be served, while adaptations can be made for tuning to a specific domain or corpus.","PeriodicalId":42386,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48245014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}