The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Clauses in Classical Greek

Richard Faure (Phd, Sorbonne 2010) is Maître de conférences (associate professor) at Université Côte d'Azur. He specializes in Ancient and general linguistics. He published extensively on subordination at the syntax/semantics interface on Greek, but also on Armenian, French, Occitan.

Preface

List of Tables and Figures



1 The Landscape of Wh-clauses in Classical Greek

 1 Three Paradigms of wh-items in Classical Greek

 2 The Nature of wh-items

 3 What This Book Is Not About

 4 About the Chapters of This Book



Part 1 The Framework



2 Ὅς/ὅστις Form a Pair of Complementary Items

 1 The Uses

 2 The Difference between ὅς and ὅστις

 3 Generalizing: The Notion of Identification

 4 Conclusion



3 Bringing Τίς into the Picture

 1 Uses Common to τίς and ὅστις

 2 Τίς and ὅστις in Indirect Interrogative Clauses

 3 Ὅστις Meaning

 4 Τίς Meaning

 5 Conclusion



Part 2 Marginal Cases



4 The Clash between Definite Terms and Ὅστις as Pragmatic Disagreement

 1 Ὅστις Meaning: A Nonidentificational Item

 2 Distribution of the Sequence [Definite Term + ὅστις]

 3 ‘Causal’ ὅστις as an Illocutionary Operator

 4 Illocutionary ὅστις Is Nonidentificational

 5 Conclusion



5 Complement Wh-clauses and the Predicates That Embed Them

 1 Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in the Landscape of Propositional Attitude Predicates

 2 Classification Based on Denotations of Interrogative Clauses

 3 The Distribution of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates in Classical Greek

 4 Conclusion



6 Τίς (and Ὅστις) in Unselected Embedded Questions

 1 Wh- vs. Yes/No-Unselected Embedded Questions

 2 Previous Approaches to wh-UEQs

 3 The Left Periphery of wh-UEQ

 4 A Type-Shifting Account for wh-UEQs

 5 Concluding Remarks



7 The Origin of Ὅς Interrogatives

 1 Ὅς Clauses as Interrogatives

 2 Ὅς Clauses Appear after Resolutive Predicates

 3 Resolutive Predicates in Nonveridical Environments

 4 Resolutive/Cognitive Factive Predicates and ὅς Clauses

 5 From Relative to Interrogative Clauses

 6 Concluding Remarks



8 Wh-exclamative Clauses

 1 Classical Greek Data

 2 Exclamatives as Presupposed Propositions

 3 Focus: What We Learn from Syntax

 4 Scalarity, Degree, Widening and Unexpectedness

 5 Concluding Remarks



9 The Ups and Downs of Classical Greek Wh-items

 1 Identification as the Key Notion

 2 Semantic vs. Traditional Syntactic Classification in Relatives, Interrogatives, Exclamatives

 3 Three Words of Diachrony

 4 Final Word



Appendix: Constructions and Classification of Interrogative-Embedding Predicates

References

Index Locorum

Index Notionum et Rerum