Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek.

Intro -- Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Editors' foreword -- Part I. Speech acts and pragmaticalization -- Part II. New insights into word order -- Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of "particles" -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Pragmatics in Latin and Ancient Greek: An introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Speech acts -- i. Interpersonal relations and politeness -- ii. Pragmatic markers -- 3. Constituent order -- 4. Conjunctions, connectors, and particles -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Speech acts -- Chapter 2. Illocutionary force and modality: How to tackle the issue in Ancient Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal analysis of Greek data -- 2.1 Illocutionary and modality verbs -- 2.2 Particles -- 2.3 Discursive context -- 2.4 Subordinate mood selection -- 3. Comparative and typological parallels -- 4. Grammarians -- 5. A case study: ó:phelon (ὤφελον) -- 5.1 Stages I-II: From lexical verb to modal verb -- 5.2 Stage III: Counterfactual assertions -- 5.3 Stage IV: From declarative to desiderative counterfactuals -- 5.4 Stage V: Development from verb into particle -- 5.5 Stage VI: Extension to non-counterfactual wishes -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions of the Latin vocative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Vocative: Form, construction, utterance -- 3. The traditionally recognized call and address functions and their definition -- 4. Vocative as a marker of discourse structure -- 5. Vocative of sincerity and guarantee -- 6. Reduplicated vocative of discontent -- 7. Functions of the vocative-construction and the lexical meaning of the words involved -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Chapter 4. Discursive and pragmatic functions of Latin em: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization… interjectionalization? -- 1. Introduction: Data and methods -- 2. Etymological content: em imperative of emere -- 3. Grammaticalization: Presentative function -- 4. Pragmaticalization: em as a discourse and pragmatic marker -- 4.1 Reference to one's own discourse -- 4.2 Reference to the interlocutor's discourse -- 5. Expression of the speaker's subjectivity: Interjectionalization? -- 6. The diachronic axis -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Quapropter, quaeso? 'Why, for pity's sake?': Questions and the pragmatic functions of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in Plautus -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Object of investigation -- 1.2 State of the art and aims of the present study -- 1.3 Pragmatic markers and their analysis in a classical language -- 2. Theoretical framework: Speech Acts and Pragmatic Macrofunctions -- 2.1 Speech acts -- 2.2 Pragmatic macrofunctions -- 3. A functional account of quaeso, obsecro, and amabo in questions -- 3.1 Subtypes of questions -- 3.2 Referential questions -- 3.3 Directive interrogatives -- 3.4 Expressive interrogatives -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part II. New insights into word order -- Chapter 6. Constituent order in directives with stative verbs in Latin -- 1. Introduction. Objectives, structure, and corpus -- 2. Illocutionary force and verbal mood -- 3. Brief overview of research -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Monovalent constructions -- 4.2 Bivalent structures -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. The right periphery in Ancient Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of right periphery (RP) -- 2.1 Identification of RPE -- 3. Analysis of the constructions at the right periphery -- 3.1 Appositions -- 3.2 Conjunct participles -- 3.3 Absolute participles.

3.4 Relative clauses -- 3.5 Epitactic constructions -- 4. Towards an overview of pragmatic functions of the RP -- 4.1 Repair topic function -- 4.2 Introducing additional information -- 4.3 Comment function -- 4.4 Focalising -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Word order and pragmatics of the Latin original -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical basis -- 3. Overview of pragmatic constellation of WO in RGDA -- 3.1 Text and context of RGDA -- 3.2 Pragmatic analysis of the text -- 3.3 Some examples -- 4. Particular cases -- 4.1 Forms of the pronoun ego -- 4.2 Other cases: Topics in preverbal position? -- 5. Constituents in postverbal position: Tails -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Pragmatic structure and word order of the Greek translation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Word order in Ancient Greek: Basic assumptions -- 3. Word order patterns in the RGDA -- 3.1 The basic template -- 3.2 Second template -- 4. The Greek text compared with the Latin original -- 4.1 Change in the syntactic construction -- 4.2 Cases which provide indirect evidence of Greek word order -- 4.3 Changes originating from the differences between pragmatic templates of Latin and Greek, respectively -- 4.4 A particular tendency to split complex Focus -- 4.5 Particular cases with no apparent pragmatic motivation -- 4.5 Some problematic cases -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Pragmatic interfaces: The case of "particles" -- Chapter 10. On the distribution of some interactive/conclusive discourse markers in Plato's Theaetetus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The main findings of previous studies and the results expected from the current study -- 2.1 A survey of previous studies on particles in Plato's dialogues -- 2.2 Methodology and aims -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1 Ára and oûn -- 3.2 Oukoûn and toínun -- 3.3 To sum up.

4. Concluding remarks and some perspectives for further research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11. Polar questions in Latin with and without the enclitic particle -ne -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data: Corpus A -- 2.1 Distribution of -ne -- 2.2 Diachrony -- 3. Corpus B: Direct simple polar questions in Plautus and Terence -- 4. Function of questions with -ne and without any particle -- 4.1 Four groups of questions -- 4.2 -ne in exclamatory sentences -- 4.3 Comparison -- 5. Frequent combinations of host word and -ne -- 6. Etymology -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12. A unitary account of the meaning of kaí -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose -- 3. A tentative unified account of the meaning of kaí in Classical Greek -- 4. Coordinator ('and') -- 4.1 Non-corresponsive coordinator -- 4.2 Corresponsive coordinator -- 4.3 Equative coordinator -- 4.4 Coordinator with a sense of climax: 'and particularly' -- 5. Adverb of addition ('also, too, even') -- 5.1 Adverb of neutral addition: 'also' -- 5.2 Linking adverb accompanying a coordinator: 'also' -- 5.3 Adverb of unexpected addition: 'even' -- 5.4 Adverb adding the content of a clause to another -- 6. Adverb of emphasis -- 7. Kaí at sentence beginning -- 8. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 13. Ancient Greek adversative particles in contrast -- 1. Introduction and theoretical background -- 2. A typology of adversative relations -- 3. Allá -- 4. Méntoi -- 5. Kaítoi -- 6. Mé:n -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Index locorum -- Index rerum.

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