Stephen Carlson wrote: ↑September 20th, 2018, 6:39 pm
It’s been a while since I’ve read Recht, and his dissertation convinced me that post-verbal focus was a thing in Greek.
By “non-syntactic” he means that the PVU need not be a (full) syntactic constituent. It may not seem like a big deal to those used to Greek hyperbaton and other forms of “discontiguous” constituents, but it’s a signal to linguists that he’s not interested in the typical generative grammar mechanisms of movement.
I got bogged down in the middle of the dissertation. Couldn't see the forest for the trees. Skipped ahead to Chapter 6
Further implications to see if the big picture would become clear. There seems to be too many
frameworks active here at the same time. Half of the bibliography are works that I am familiar with. The other half have to do with sound patterns which is an approach I have avoided like the plague. To participate in that discussion one needs to read at least several of the following works:
Devine, A. M., and L. D. Stephens. 1990. ‘The Greek phonological phrase’. Greek,
Roman, and Byzantine Studies 31:421-446.
——. 1994. The prosody of Greek speech. Oxford University Press.
——. 1999. Discontinuous syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek. Oxford University Press.
Fraenkel, Eduard. 1932. ‘Kolon und Satz, I: Beobachtungen zur Gliederung des
antiken Satzes’. Nachrichten der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,
Phil.-hist. Klasse, 197-213.
——. 1933. ‘Kolon und Satz, II: Beobachtungen zur Gliederung des antiken
Satzes’. Nachrichten der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist.
Klasse, 319
——. 1964. ‘Nachträge zu “Kolon und Satz”’, in Kleine Beiträge zur klassischen
Philologie, vol. 1, pp. 93-130. Rome: Storia e Letteratura.
——. 1965. Noch einmal Kolon und Satz. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der
Wissenschaften.
Goldstein, David Michael. 2010. Wackernagel’s Law in fifth-century Greek. Ph. D.
dissertation, Dept. of Classics, University of California, Berkeley.
——. 2012. ‘Review of Frank Scheppers, The Colon Hypothesis: Word Order,
Discourse Segmentation and Discourse Coherence in Ancient Greek (Brussels
2011).’ Bryn Mawr Classical Review 05.49.
——. 2013. ‘Wackernagel’s Law and the Fall of the Lydian Empire’. Transactions
of the American Philological Association 143:2.325-347.
——. 2015. Classical Greek syntax: Wackernagel’s Law in Herodotus. Leiden: Brill.
Golston, Chris. 1995. ‘Syntax outranks phonology: Evidence from Ancient Greek’.
Phonology 12:3.343-368.
Janse, Mark. 1993. ‘The prosodic basis of Wackernagel’s Law.’. In Les langues
menacées. Actes du XVe Congrès international des linguistes, Québec, Université
Laval, 9-14 août 1992, Vol. 4, ed. A. Crochetière, J.-C. Boulanger, and C.
Ouellon, pp. 19–22. Sainte-Foy: Presses de l’Université Laval.
——. 1994. ‘L’ordre des mots dans les langues classiques. Bibliographie 1939-
1993.’ Techniques et Méthodologies Modernes Appliqueés à l’Antiquité 1:187-
211.
Scheppers, Frank. 2011. The colon hypothesis: Word order, discourse segmentation
and discourse coherence in Ancient Greek. Brussels: VUBPress.
Selkirk, Elizabeth. 1995. ‘Sentence prosody: Intonation, stress,and phrasing.’ In
Handbook of Phonological Theory, vol. 1, ed. John A. Goldsmith, pp. 550-
140 569. Blackwell.
I have at some time looked at
Devine, A. M., and L. D. Stephens. 1990.
——. 1999. Discontinuous syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek. Oxford University Press.
Scheppers, Frank. 2011. The colon hypothesis: Word order, discourse segmentation and discourse coherence in Ancient Greek.
Goldstein, David Michael.
——. 2012. ‘Review of Frank Scheppers, The Colon Hypothesis: ...
That is not enough.
C. Stirling Bartholomew