Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Phonology and its written reflexes -- The outcome of liquid and sibilant clusters in Ancient Greek -- Los grupos de consonantes oclusivas labiales y velares seguidas de silbante en los dialectos griegos -- Gothic evidence for Greek historical phonology -- Scritture Brevi in alfabeto greco: qualche considerazione linguistica -- Metro e confini di parola: il caso dei preverbi multipli in Omero -- Parte II: Particles and their functional uses -- The grammaticalization of Greek particles -- On the non–prototypical uses of adverbs in Homer: analysis of ἤδη -- Focus adverbs in Classical Greek -- Connettivi e marcatori discorsivi in greco antico: il caso di ἀτάρ e αὐτάρ in Omero -- Ancient Greek καί: marginal adverbial uses -- Usos de καί y ἔτι como adverbios de foco aditivos en las declamaciones etopoéticas de Libanio -- Les emplois de καί initial en grec ancien -- Homeric use of the particle οὖν in subordinate clauses -- Discourse markers in a comic fragmentary dialogue -- Defective approximative adverbs in Late Greek -- “Single” μήν in Platonic dialogue -- Part III: Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality -- On deictic motion verbs in Homeric Greek -- Reportative markers in Ancient Greek -- Would–be factuality. Future in the Greek verb system -- On the oblique optative in Herodotus’ completive sentences, an evidentiality mark in Ancient Greek -- Pluractionality and perfect in Homeric Greek -- Manifestazioni del “locutore” in greco -- Forme sintetiche del futuro nel greco ellenistico. Brevi note sulla Settanta -- Parte IV: Speech acts and pragmatics -- Discontinuous and expletive topic expressions in Homeric Greek -- Le grec classique possède–t–il un présentatif? -- Attenuated, modified, assent–seeking declaratives, interrogation and urbanitas in the Greek of Platonic dialogue -- Focus in performance: some focusing expressions in anagnorisis scenes from Attic tragedy -- Struttura informativa della frase in greco omerico: periferia alta, periferia bassa; collocazione delle relative nella periferia sinistra -- Linguistic paraphrase in Platonic dialogue: a first approach -- Part V: Syntax, thematic roles and their morpho–lexical interface -- Quale avere? Sulla sintassi di ἔχειν -- Abstract possession and experiential expression. Some preliminary remarks -- Dietro la maschera. Apparizioni della prima persona nell’Antigone di Sofocle -- Verbal alternations in Ancient Greek as an interface between lexicon and syntax -- Argument participial clauses viewed as abstract objects in Classical Greek -- Noun apposition in Greek religious language: a linguistic account -- Word order, adverb’s scope and focus -- Did Pindar’s scheme really exist? -- Result clauses in Ancient Greek: correlatives, negation, mood and sentence level -- L’aumento in Omero tra narrazione e sintassi -- Parte VI: Lexicon and onomastics -- Apollo the Archer -- Locative alternation as lexical derivation: the examples of νάττω and βάλλω -- The “Classical” way to encode motion -- Voice and Sociative alternations in spatial symphero -- Le lexique de la promesse en grec à l’époque archaïque -- Zoomorfismo ed antropomorfismo nella formazione del lessico botanico greco -- Pensare, sapere, ricordare: i verbi di attività mentale in greco omerico -- Theran hικεσιος (6th c. BC) and Homeric ἱκετήσιος: evidence for Zeus ‘of the Foreigners’ in Archaic Greece -- Part VII: Greek and other languages -- Homeric and Hittite phraseology compared: introducing the soliloquy in the Homeric and Near Eastern epic -- Ipotesi su gr. Μαρσύας e gr. μάρσι/ύπ(π)ος -- Le grec en latin: des mots grecs attestés seulement en latin -- Antroponimia sabellica nelle iscrizioni greche -- Analytical Indices -- List of Contributors

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The volume assembles about 50 contributions presented at the Intenational Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held in Rome, March 2015. This Colloquium opened a new series of international conferences that has replaced previous national meetings on this subject. They embrace essential topics of Ancient Greek Linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: particles and their functional uses; phonology; tense, aspect, modality; syntax and thematic roles; lexicon and onomastics; Greek and other languages; speech acts and pragmatics.

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