Reporting Someone Else's Speech
The Use of the Optative and Accusative-and-Infinitive as Reportative Markers in Herodotus' Histories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3026340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Corien Bary (0009-0007-1619-4208, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Library of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-6700 • E-ISSN: 2056-6700 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/olh.199 |
| OpenAlex | W2800258365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article provides a pragma-semantic account of the oblique optative and accusative-and-infinitive in Ancient Greek. The proposed account analyses certain seemingly anomalous uses as special cases of a general meaning. The core idea is that we view their contribution as one of the presupposition triggers. The presupposed information that they trigger is that the content of the clause is said by someone. This analysis is then used to explain the usefulness of the constructions. As we will see, they facilitate a faithful rendering of original discourse relations without losing the information that it is a report, something which, as I will argue, is especially useful for Herodotus’ way of doing historiography. Thus, the article combines a linguistic and narratological perspective. It focuses on Ancient Greek, but at the same time provides a case study of how authors use the inventory of their language to find a midpoint between speaking in their own voice and representing the speech of others
Indirect speech · Infinitive · Linguistics · Presupposition · Verb · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy
Sequence of Tense and Temporal de re
Context of Thought and Context of Utterance
Scorekeeping in a language game
Modal particles and context shift
Gestaltung und Funktion der Reden bei Herodot und Thukydides
Herodotus and his Sources of Information
Presupposition Projection as Anaphora Resolution
Presupposition and Linguistic Context
Verbal Aspect and Mimetic Description in Thucydides
Modal Particles and Different Points of view in Herodotus and Thucydides
Varieties of update
Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity
Factors licensing embedded present tense in speech reports
Tense in Ancient Greek Reports
Attitudes De Dicto and De Se
An Unexpected Root Clause
Herodotus' Epigraphical Interests
In a Mediative Mood
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |