The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek (Publications of the Philological Society) - Softcover

Crellin, Robert Samuel David

 
9781119243540: The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek (Publications of the Philological Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1119243548 ISBN 13: 9781119243540
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

Synopsis

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.

  • Offers a comprehensive and unified account of the Greek perfect that considers its behaviour in terms of tense and aspect, as well as voice (or diathesis)
  • Features insights from the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan semantic traditions while addressing the perfect tense in Koine Greek
  • Incorporates syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate
  • Utilizes a large corpus of material that has not been previously discussed in a linguistic sense relating to the question of the semantics of the Greek perfect

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About the Author

Robert Crellin works for the Greek Lexicon Project, based in the Classics Faculty at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a former Lecturer in New Testament Greek at the Greek Bible College in Athens, Greece.

From the Back Cover

While linguists and scholars have been poring over Koine Greek literary works for centuries, the semantics of the perfect tense continues to be a vexing issue in ancient Greek linguistics. Incorporating the most recent linguistic insights from both the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers a unified, comprehensive semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek. In addition to consolidating material from contemporary authors, noted classical scholar Robert Crellin draws on a large corpus of extant Koine Greek works―including the writings of Josephus, Polybius, Appian, and Plutarch―to address temporal problems of the perfect and pluperfect in Koine Greek, as well as linguistic issues relating to transitivity. After examining the behaviour of the perfect form from a lexical semantic standpoint, chapters incorporate syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate. Revelatory and thought-provoking, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers illuminating insights into the precise meanings of the literary and scholarly writings of the ancient Greeks.

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While linguists and scholars have been poring over Koine Greek literary works for centuries, the semantics of the perfect tense continues to be a vexing issue in ancient Greek linguistics. Incorporating the most recent linguistic insights from both the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers a unified, comprehensive semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek. In addition to consolidating material from contemporary authors, noted classical scholar Robert Crellin draws on a large corpus of extant Koine Greek works—including the writings of Josephus, Polybius, Appian, and Plutarch—to address temporal problems of the perfect and pluperfect in Koine Greek, as well as linguistic issues relating to transitivity. After examining the behaviour of the perfect form from a lexical semantic standpoint, chapters incorporate syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate. Revelatory and thought-provoking, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers illuminating insights into the precise meanings of the literary and scholarly writings of the ancient Greeks.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1119243548
ISBN 13 
9781119243540
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288