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Schmidhauser (in Bakker 201: 499) ascribes the 'creation of Greek Grammar' to Chrysippus of Soli (c. 400 BCE). Read more
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Are we discussing the commentaries written by Aristophanes and Aristarchus here, or 'Alexandrian commentaries' in general? It is not clear if we should feel free to scan all the marginalia for terms, and interpret them all as developed by Stoic philosophers (Becares Botas 1985). Read more
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The chaper also shows (starting from the quotation from Poetics 1456 below) how the modern day category 'particles' grew from the /sundesmoi/ due to the prosodic resemblance that words from different lexical categories had in common with the 'combiners': their phonetic (appositive) 'insignificance'. Read more
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As in 'isolating them as a group of lexical items based either on their form or their function'? Devine and Stephens (Prosody of Greek Speech, 1994: 303-308) undertake an attempt to isolate particles prosodically as nonlexical phonological clitics, based on them 1) being part of an intonational unit, 2) being… Read more
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This is the meaning that I have postulated as the concept that the three usages have in common; even in the Linear B tablet PY Ep 704), the word /pasi/ = alphabetic Greek φασι, is used as its synonym. It's not any kind of speech, though!… Read more
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But there is a third meaning, attested in two Linear B tables (PY Ep 704 and PY Eb 297) where it means 'make a legal claim'. If Benveniste had known about this usage, he might have taken a different path in his reconstruction. Read more