Tense-switching in classical Greek : a cognitive approach /

Tense-switching in classical Greek : a cognitive approach /

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Author / Creator:Nijk, Arjan A., author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
©2022
Description:xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Greek language -- Tense.
Greek language -- Tense.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12719839
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ISBN:9781316517154
1316517152
9781009005883
100900588X
9781009042970
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer to past events in Classical Greek and beyond. Adopting a cognitive approach to the issue, he argues that the use of the present for preterite depends on the activation of implicit conceptual scenarios in which the gap between the past and the present is bridged. The book is distinguished from previous accounts by its precision in describing these conceptual scenarios, the combination of linguistic theorising with philological and statistical methods, the size of the corpus under investigation and the explicitly cross-linguistic scope. It provides a complete overview of the phenomenon of tense switching in Classical Greek, as well as new theoretical perspectives on deixis and viewpoint, and is important for classicists, narratologists and linguists of every stamp"--
Other form:Online version: Nijk, Arjan A., 1987- Tense-switching in classical greek 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781009042970

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