Ancient Greek

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 …

Wackernagel’s law and the fall of the Lydian empire

This paper offers a novel reading of the Delphic oracle’s response to Croesus’s question of whether he should attack Persia (Herodotus 1), by focusing on a previously unacknowledged feature of the oracular answer: the preposing of the …

Review of F. Scheppers, The Colon Hypothesis: Word Order, Discourse Segmentation and Discourse Coherence in Ancient Greek (Brussels 2011)

Review of S. Bakker, The noun phrase in ancient Greek (Leiden 2009)

Review of E. Bakker, ed. A companion to the ancient Greek language (Malden, MA 2010)

Review of A. Sihler, New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin (Oxford 1995)

Wackernagel’s Law in fifth-century Greek

Review of S. Reece, Homer’s winged words: The evolution of early Greek epic diction in the light of oral theory (Leiden 2009)

Review of J. Willmott, The moods of Homeric Greek (Cambridge 2007)

Review of H. Dik, Word order in Greek tragic dialogue (Oxford 2007)