TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartolo,Giuseppina di
AU  - Benedetti,Marina
AU  - Denizot,Camille
AU  - Gianollo,Chiara
AU  - Masliš,Martin
AU  - Pardal Padín,Alberto
AU  - Revuelta Puigdollers,Antonio R.
AU  - Roi,Ezra la
AU  - Ruiz Yamuza,Emilia
AU  - Tronci,Liana
AU  - Vassilaki,Sophie
AU  - Verano,Rodrigo
TI  - Building Modality with Syntax: Focus on Ancient Greek 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110778052
U1  - 415 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Modality
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Modalität
KW  - Semantik
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ancient Greek
KW  - Semantics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Editors’ acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of abbreviations --; 1 For a syntactic approach to modality and its application to Ancient Greek --; 2 Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek --; 3 Information source and complementation in Classical Greek. The case of verbs of seeing and knowledge acquisition --; 4 Syntactic patterns of modality in temporal clauses: Hóte vs. hótan in the diachrony of Ancient Greek --; 5 Variation and change of counterfactual conditionals in Postclassical Greek: Evidence from private papyrus letters --; 6 Conditional subordinate clauses and verbal moods. A case study --; 7 (Inter)subjectivity, modality, and syntax in Classical Greek: Dokéō and phaínomai in addressee-oriented assertions in the dialogues of Plato --; 8 A pragmatic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction and mood (a)symmetry from Archaic to Classical Greek --; 9 Mood, modality and speech acts in clause combination. The case of conditionals --; List of contributors --; Index locorum --; Index verborum --; Index notionum; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories (e.g. epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how these modal meanings arise from the combination of different linguistic devices in specific syntactic contexts (e.g. combinations of modal elements, types of main and dependent clauses, types of illocutionary acts, etc.). By approaching modality from a different perspective and providing an up-to-date discussion of several aspects of modality, the book makes a significant contribution to current debates
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778380
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110778380
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ER  -