Aeschylus

Iterated modal marking and polarity focus in ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek particle an, which encodes modal and irrealis semantics, canonically occurs once per clause. In the fifth century BCE, however, we find cases where two tokens (or, more rarely, three) co‐occur with the same verb. While this …

Review of P. Judet de la Combe, L’Agamemnon d’Eschyle: commentaire des dialogues (Paris 2001)