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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781009042970
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer to past events in Classical Greek and beyond. Adopting a cognitive approach to the issue, he argues that the use of the present for preterite depends on the activation of implicit conceptual scenarios in which the gap between the past and the present is bridged. The book is distinguished from previous accounts by its precision in describing these conceptual scenarios, the combination of linguistic theorising with philological and statistical methods, the size of the corpus under investigation and the explicitly cross-linguistic scope. It provides a complete overview of the phenomenon of tense switching in Classical Greek, as well as new theoretical perspectives on deixis and viewpoint, and is important for classicists, narratologists and linguists of every stamp. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Reviews

'… this is a well-conceived and persuasive book, which will repay attention not only by scholars of ancient Greek language and literature, but also by linguists and literary scholars interested in presents for preterites beyond ancient Greek.’

Philomen Probert Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The book is a pleasure to read, and will be of lasting value for the study of the Greek language.'

Michael Lloyd Source: Gnomon

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Contents

  • Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
    pp i-ii
  • Tense-Switching in Classical Greek - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • A Cognitive Approach
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vi
  • Illustrations
    pp vii-viii
  • Preface
    pp ix-ix
  • Acknowledgements
    pp x-xi
  • Abbreviations
    pp xii-xii
  • Additional material
    pp xiii-xiv
  • Introduction
    pp 1-30
  • Chapter 1 - General Conceptual Model
    pp 31-65
  • Chapter 2 - Scenic Narrative and the Mimetic Present
    pp 66-146
  • Chapter 3 - Summary Narrative and the Diegetic Present
    pp 147-232
  • Chapter 4 - Zero-Degree Narrativity and the Registering Present
    pp 233-265
  • Conclusion
    pp 266-270
  • Appendix
    pp 271-292
  • References
    pp 293-313
  • Index Locorum
    pp 314-317
  • Index
    pp 318-320

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