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Rezension zu Melanie Möller: Talis oratio - qualis vita. Zur Theorie und Praxis mimetischer Verfahren in der griechisch-römischen Literaturkritik. Heidelberg (Winter) 2004 (= Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Bd. 113). 396 S.
Wie der Mann, so das Buch. Oder, anders herum: Der Stil ist der Mensch. Diesen Gemeinspruch erhebt die vorliegende Monographie zur Problemformel der Hermeneutik. Vorweg sei festgestellt: Die Verfasserin legt einen Denkweg frei, der die historische und systematische Darstellung der griechisch-römischen Literaturkritik übersteigt, indem für den hermeneutischen Diskurs unserer Gegenwart kontrastierende Anschauungen bereitgestellt werden. Leitend ist die Fragestellung: Inwieweit zeigt sich in der Rede die Individualität des Redners, so dass aus dieser jene besser zu verstehen ist? Oder ist das, was als Individualität sich zeigt, als objektives Merkmal der Rede einzustufen, das mit der lebensgeschichtlichen Individualität des Redners nicht zusammenhängt?
It is my intention to make two major points in this paper: 1. The first has to do with finding a frame within which the modal expressions of one particular Ancient IE [Indoeuropean] language – I have chosen Classical Greek – can be best described. I shall try to point out that the regularities which we find in these expressions must depend on an underlying principle, represented by abstract structures. These structures are semanto-syntactic, which means that the semantic properties or bundles of properties are arranged not in a linear order but in a hierarchical order, analogous to a bracketing in a PS structure. The abstract structures we propose have, of course, a very tentative character. They can only be accepted as far as evidence for them can be furnished. 2. My second point has to do with the modal verb forms that were the object of the studies of most Indo-Europeanists. If in the innermost bracket of a semanto-syntactic structure two semantic properties or bundles of properties can be exchanged without any further change in the total structure, and if this change is correlated with a change in verbal mood forms and nothing else, then I think we are faced with a case where these forms can be said to have a meaning of their own. I shall also try to show how these meanings are to be understood as bundles of features rather than as unanalyzed terms. In my final remarks: I shall try to outline the bearing these views have on comparative IE linguistics.
The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP. Section 3 briefly discusses problems for both approaches. Sections 4.1, 5.1, and 5.2 draw from Alexiadou (2001) and contain a discussion of Greek DS and its relevance for a re-analysis of the word order variation in the Romance DP. Section 4.2 introduces refinements to Alexiadou & Wilder (1998) and Alexiadou (2001). Section 5.3. discusses certain issues that arise from the analysis of postnominal adjectives in Romance as involving raising of XPs. Section 6 discusses phenomena found in other languages, which at first sight seem similar to DS. However, I show that double definiteness in e.g. Hebrew, Scandinavian or other Balkan languages constitutes a different type of phenomenon from Greek DS, thus making a distinction between determiners that introduce CPs (Greek) and those that are merely morphological/agreement markers (Hebrew, Scandinavian, Albanian).
In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are licensed by distinct functional heads, respectively. We argue against a conceivable alternative analysis, which links agentivity and causation to the prepositions themselves. We furthermore identify a particular type of Voice head in Greek anticausative realised by non-active Voice morphology.
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move, permitting DPs in argument positions. This leads to a typology according to which there are two types of clitic/agreement languages -configurational and nonconfigurational ones-, depending upon whether clitics are instantiations of formal features or not.
Nach einer Einführung zu den griechischen Literatursprachen zwischen dem 8. und 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. geht dieser Beitrag den verschiedenen Formen und Funktionen der Verwendung von Dialekten und "foreigner talk" im griechischen Drama des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. nach. Dabei lassen sich große Unterschiede für die Gattungen Tragödie und Komödie feststellen: Durch die Dosierung der lyrischen Partien der Tragödie werden diese von den in Attisch gehaltenen Dialogpartien unterschieden und ihnen wird eine herausgehobene, erhabene Bedeutung zugewiesen, die nicht allzu viel Fremdheit ausstrahlen soll. Dialekte und "foreigner talk" in der Komödie dagegen markieren Fremdheit und können vielfältige Funktionen erfüllen – vom Verweis auf sprachlichen Realismus bis hin zu kritischen, komischen oder parodistischen Zwecken.
It has often been noticed that one syntactic argument position can be realized by elements which seem to realize different thematic roles. This is notably the case with the external argument position of verbs of change of state which licenses volitional agents, instruments or natural forces/causers, showing the generality and abstractness of the external argument relation. (1) a. John broke the window (Agent) b. The hammer broke the window (Instrument) c. The storm broke the window (Causer) In order to capture this generality, Van Valin & Wilkins (1996) and Ramchand (2003) among others have proposed that the thematic role of the external argument position is in fact underspecified. The relevant notion is that of an effector (in Van Valin & Wilkins) or of an abstract causer/initiator (in Ramchand). In this paper we argue against a total underspecification of the external argument relation. While we agree that (1b) does not instantiate an instrument theta role in subject position, we argue that a complete underspecification of the external theta-position is not feasible, but that two types of external theta roles have to be distinguished, Agents and Causers. Our arguments are based on languages where Agents and Causers show morpho-syntactic independence (section 2.1) and the behavior of instrument subjects in English, Dutch, German and Greek (section 2.2 and 3). We show that instrument subjects are either Agent or Causer like. In section (4) we give an analysis how arguments realizing these thematic notions are introduced into syntax.
Alexopoulou (2008) argues that Greek provides new evidence for the concept of binding illusions that was hypothesized by Fox and Sauerland (1996). Of special interest from my perspective is Alexopoulou’s argument that binding illusions arise not only with existential and universal quantifiers, but also with negative and interrogative quantifiers. The purpose of this note is to speculate on how to account for these kinds of binding illusions semantically building on Alexopoulou’s argument. In the following I refer to Alexopoulou’s (2008) paper as BIRG (Binding Illusions and Resumption in Greek) and to Clitic Left-Dislocation as CLLD. BIRG’s argument is based on the generalization concerning CLLD in Greek. Generally, a left-dislocated noun phrase cannot bind a pronoun in its clause in Greek.