The Ancient Greek Nominal Group, with Attention to the Greek New Testament
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10880356 |
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| Authors | Stanley E Porter (McMaster Divinity College, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON Canada, L8S 4K1), Chris Land (0000-0001-7277-0985, McMaster Divinity College, corresponding author), Christopher D Land (McMaster Divinity College, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON Canada, L8S 4K1) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-44 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2021.1993591 |
| OpenAlex | W4221006359 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Together with Latin, Ancient Greek has had a strong influence on grammatical theories and descriptions. This is reflected in traditional descriptions of the Ancient Greek nominal group (i.e., noun phrase), which are heavily syntagmatic and dependent on conventional parts-of-speech. In this paper, we explore the nominal group from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. This allows for a more overtly paradigmatic description, yet one that is nevertheless still grounded in the syntagmatic patterns observed by traditional Greek grammar. We begin by discussing some systems expressed by inflectional morphology, namely gender and number. We then present systems realized through the insertion of what we call “substantive” nominal group functions, namely speech role, naming, description, differentiation, distribution, association, and reiteration. The functions that realize these systems can each serve as the syntagmatic head of an Ancient Greek nominal group, but where more than one of them is realized, the most substantive one will serve as head. By contrast, the specification system is realized by a grammatical marker with left-to-right scope. To conclude the paper, we briefly discuss linear ordering in Ancient Greek nominal groups and some functional explanations of their many possible orderings
Ancient Greek · Generative grammar · Grammar · Group (periodic table · Linguistics · Modern Greek · Morpheme · Nominal group · Noun · Sociology · Syntagmatic analysis · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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The Routledge handbook of systemic functional linguistics
| Highly cited | No |
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