Katerina Chatzopoulou (Instructor in Lin Instructor in Linguistics

Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek, based on extensive data from major stages of the language. It also provides a new semantic interpretation of Jespersen's cycle that explains the Greek developments and those in other languages.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780198712404
• ISBN-10: 0198712405
• Artikelnr.: 52903365

Autorenporträt

Katerina Chatzopoulou is an Instructor in Linguistics at New York College in Thessaloniki and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests range from historical semantics and language change to evolutionary epistemology and the popularization of science. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2012 in the field of historical syntax and semantics, and her work has appeared in a variety of international journals and edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The (non)veridicality theory and negator choice
* 3: Negation and polarity in Classical Greek (5th-4th century BC)
* 4: Developments in Hellenistic-Roman times and the non-veridicality
projection (3rd-4th century AD)
* 5: Late Medieval Greek and beyond: The renewal of NEG1
* 6: Renewal and stability: One full Jespersen's cycle and one
persistent polarity item
* 7: Conclusion
* Appendix of texts
* References