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Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue (Hardcover, New)
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Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue (Hardcover, New)
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Helma Dik approaches word order in Greek tragic dialogue from the
perspective of language rather than metre. The tragic poets engaged
in mimesis of natural dialogue; therefore the analysis of the
linguistic characteristics of the dialogue precedes exploration of
the metrical dimension, on the assumption that poets would not be
overly constrained by the iambic trimeter, which, after all, was
the most natural speaking verse according to Aristotle. Dik
analyses the word order of tragic dialogue in pragmatic terms,
arguing that, in sentences, words functioning as Topic (the
'starting point' of an utterance) or Focus (the most salient piece
of information) will come early, and that other less important
words will follow. Similarly, the position of adjectives within
noun phrases is analysed as a function of their relative salience
rather than in terms of their semantics. This approach aims to
account for word order in sentences generally, but it also allows
for a new interpretation of familiar phenomena in Greek, such as
'postponed interrogatives'. The book concludes with a commentary on
the word order in four passages of Sophocles' Electra.
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