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“Single” μήν in Platonic dialogue

  • Kees Thijs
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Ancient Greek Linguistics
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Ancient Greek Linguistics

Abstract

In this paper I examine the particle μήν in Platonic dialogue. The instances where μήν is not used in collocation with other particles (“single” μήν) are used as a research corpus. The paper shows thatWakker’s account of μήν as a marker of personal commitment does not suffice to account for all the Platonic data. Instead, I propose that μήν is a marker of intersubjective contrast, i.e. a discrepancy in the alignment of the assumptions and expectations of the speaker with those of the addressee. On the basis of this semantics special attention is paid to (i) the use of μήν in specifying questions, and (ii) the additional discourse organizing functions of μήν.

Abstract

In this paper I examine the particle μήν in Platonic dialogue. The instances where μήν is not used in collocation with other particles (“single” μήν) are used as a research corpus. The paper shows thatWakker’s account of μήν as a marker of personal commitment does not suffice to account for all the Platonic data. Instead, I propose that μήν is a marker of intersubjective contrast, i.e. a discrepancy in the alignment of the assumptions and expectations of the speaker with those of the addressee. On the basis of this semantics special attention is paid to (i) the use of μήν in specifying questions, and (ii) the additional discourse organizing functions of μήν.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction XI
  4. Part I: Phonology and its written reflexes
  5. The outcome of liquid and sibilant clusters in Ancient Greek 3
  6. Los grupos de consonantes oclusivas labiales y velares seguidas de silbante en los dialectos griegos 19
  7. Gothic evidence for Greek historical phonology 35
  8. Scritture Brevi in alfabeto greco: qualche considerazione linguistica 57
  9. Metro e confini di parola: il caso dei preverbi multipli in Omero 77
  10. Parte II: Particles and their functional uses
  11. The grammaticalization of Greek particles 103
  12. On the non–prototypical uses of adverbs in Homer: analysis of ἤδη 119
  13. Focus adverbs in Classical Greek 133
  14. Connettivi e marcatori discorsivi in greco antico: il caso di ἀτάρ e αὐτάρ in Omero 155
  15. Ancient Greek καί: marginal adverbial uses 171
  16. Usos de καί y ἔτι como adverbios de foco aditivos en las declamaciones etopoéticas de Libanio 181
  17. Les emplois de καί initial en grec ancien 193
  18. Homeric use of the particle οὖν in subordinate clauses 211
  19. Discourse markers in a comic fragmentary dialogue 227
  20. Defective approximative adverbs in Late Greek 243
  21. “Single” μήν in Platonic dialogue 259
  22. Part III: Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality
  23. On deictic motion verbs in Homeric Greek 277
  24. Reportative markers in Ancient Greek 293
  25. Would–be factuality. Future in the Greek verb system 303
  26. On the oblique optative in Herodotus’ completive sentences, an evidentiality mark in Ancient Greek 313
  27. Pluractionality and perfect in Homeric Greek 325
  28. Manifestazioni del “locutore” in greco 345
  29. Forme sintetiche del futuro nel greco ellenistico. Brevi note sulla Settanta 383
  30. Parte IV: Speech acts and pragmatics
  31. Discontinuous and expletive topic expressions in Homeric Greek 399
  32. Le grec classique possède–t–il un présentatif? 411
  33. Attenuated, modified, assent–seeking declaratives, interrogation and urbanitas in the Greek of Platonic dialogue 429
  34. Focus in performance: some focusing expressions in anagnorisis scenes from Attic tragedy 447
  35. Struttura informativa della frase in greco omerico: periferia alta, periferia bassa; collocazione delle relative nella periferia sinistra 457
  36. Linguistic paraphrase in Platonic dialogue: a first approach 475
  37. Part V: Syntax, thematic roles and their morpho–lexical interface
  38. Quale avere? Sulla sintassi di ἔχειν 491
  39. Abstract possession and experiential expression. Some preliminary remarks 507
  40. Dietro la maschera. Apparizioni della prima persona nell’Antigone di Sofocle 523
  41. Verbal alternations in Ancient Greek as an interface between lexicon and syntax 535
  42. Argument participial clauses viewed as abstract objects in Classical Greek 551
  43. Noun apposition in Greek religious language: a linguistic account 565
  44. Word order, adverb’s scope and focus 581
  45. Did Pindar’s scheme really exist? 597
  46. Result clauses in Ancient Greek: correlatives, negation, mood and sentence level 609
  47. L’aumento in Omero tra narrazione e sintassi 625
  48. Parte VI: Lexicon and onomastics
  49. Apollo the Archer 643
  50. Locative alternation as lexical derivation: the examples of νάττω and βάλλω 663
  51. The “Classical” way to encode motion 679
  52. Voice and Sociative alternations in spatial symphero 695
  53. Le lexique de la promesse en grec à l’époque archaïque 711
  54. Zoomorfismo ed antropomorfismo nella formazione del lessico botanico greco 735
  55. Pensare, sapere, ricordare: i verbi di attività mentale in greco omerico 745
  56. Theran hικεσιος (6th c. BC) and Homeric ἱκετήσιος: evidence for Zeus ‘of the Foreigners’ in Archaic Greece 775
  57. Part VII: Greek and other languages
  58. Homeric and Hittite phraseology compared: introducing the soliloquy in the Homeric and Near Eastern epic 791
  59. Ipotesi su gr. Μαρσύας e gr. μάρσι/ύπ(π)ος 811
  60. Le grec en latin: des mots grecs attestés seulement en latin 825
  61. Antroponimia sabellica nelle iscrizioni greche 835
  62. Analytical Indices 853
  63. List of Contributors 861
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