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Relative Clauses in Septuagint Greek: Some Preliminary Remarks

  • Paola Mollo

    Paola Mollo is Associate Professor of Biblical Hebrew language and literature at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome. Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University Sapienza of Rome (in partnership with the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome and the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität of Munich), with a project on Posture and bodily movements in the Bible and biblical religions (POSTURE). Invited lecturer of Classical civilizations, Ancient Mediterranean archaeology and history, and Semitic philology at the eCampus University (Como, Italy).

         und Liana Tronci

    Liana Tronci is associate professor of General and Historical Linguistics at the University for Foreigners of Siena. Her research focuses on the morphosyntax of Ancient Greek and Latin and its interactions with the lexicon, information structure, and pragmatics. She is the author of Perspectives on Koine Greek (Edizioni Università per Stranieri di Siena 2023) and Gli aoristi con -(θ)η-: uno studio sulla morfosintassi verbale del greco antico (Guerra Edizioni 2005). She co-edited, with Camille Denizot, Building modality with syntax. Focus on Ancient Greek (de Gruyter 2023) and, with Emmanuel Dupraz, Aspects de la définitude: langues, textes, grammaires (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 2017).
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Abstract

This paper investigates relative clauses (RCs) in Septuagint Greek (data taken from the Book of Exodus), focusing on contact with Biblical Hebrew and the possible changes it brought in Greek syntax. In particular, two issues are addressed: (1) the use of the resumptive pronoun, i.e. a personal or demonstrative pronoun (or an adverb) that relates to the relative pronoun and occurs in the relative clause itself; (2) the typology of Greek RCs as compared to Biblical Hebrew. Although the use of the resumptive pronoun in the Septuagint matches the Accessibility Hierarchy of Relativization of Keenan and Comrie (1977) and therefore cannot only be explained as a direct influence of Hebrew, the broadening of the scope of Greek RCs to the entire matrix clause, on the one hand, and the tendency toward syntactic independence of the subordinate clause, on the other, can be considered as a result of contact with the source language.

Abstract

This paper investigates relative clauses (RCs) in Septuagint Greek (data taken from the Book of Exodus), focusing on contact with Biblical Hebrew and the possible changes it brought in Greek syntax. In particular, two issues are addressed: (1) the use of the resumptive pronoun, i.e. a personal or demonstrative pronoun (or an adverb) that relates to the relative pronoun and occurs in the relative clause itself; (2) the typology of Greek RCs as compared to Biblical Hebrew. Although the use of the resumptive pronoun in the Septuagint matches the Accessibility Hierarchy of Relativization of Keenan and Comrie (1977) and therefore cannot only be explained as a direct influence of Hebrew, the broadening of the scope of Greek RCs to the entire matrix clause, on the one hand, and the tendency toward syntactic independence of the subordinate clause, on the other, can be considered as a result of contact with the source language.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents IX
  4. List of Figures and Diagrams XV
  5. List of Tables XVII
  6. Abbreviations XXI
  7. Part I History of the Greek Language, Phonetics, Morphology
  8. Linguistic Variation and the Study of Ancient Greek Dialects 3
  9. Open Questions in Ancient Greek Phonology: Some New Evidence from Enclitics 33
  10. Post-Nasal Deaspiration in Ancient Greek: Mirage or Reality? 65
  11. Greek Verbs in -βω: A Survey 81
  12. Action Nouns in -τιζ/-σιζ as Second Members of Nominal Compounds in Greek 93
  13. The Syntax and Semantics of ([N+V]V) Verbal Compounds in Ancient Greek 107
  14. Σκορακίζω: ‘Curse (by Saying ἐζ κόρακαζ)’. About Delocutive Derivation in Ancient Greek and Performative 127
  15. Part II Lexicon, Semantics
  16. Nature-based Metaphors as Body-part Terms in Ancient Greek: On καρπόζ ‘Wrist’ and ἀστράγαλοζ ‘Ankle(Bone)’ 147
  17. Grammaticalization of Adverbs in Ancient Greek: The Case of Homeric μάλα 159
  18. Smells like Metonymy 179
  19. Cultural Reconstruction through Linguistic Analysis: The Case of AG ταρχύω and ταριχ∊ύω 195
  20. On Hom. ἐπίφρων and πρόφρων in View of Homeric Human Physiology 211
  21. Analytical Constructions and Synthetic Encoding of Complex Predicates at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 225
  22. Part III Syntax 1: Clause
  23. Number Agreement of a Predicate in Singular with Two or More Coordinated Noun Phrases in Nominative in Homer 247
  24. The Construction of the Verb μιμνήσκομαι in the Homeric Language 261
  25. On a Double Case Construction in Ancient Greek: The Whole-Part Construction in Homeric Greek 279
  26. Taking Stock of Greek Support-Verb Constructions: Synchronic and Diachronic Variability in the Documentary Papyri 297
  27. Hyperbaton in Herodotus: A Functional Discourse Grammar Perspective 315
  28. Adverb Placement in Demosthenes’ First Philippic 335
  29. Case Attraction in Infinitive Clauses: A Distributive Account 351
  30. Part IV Syntax 2: Verb and Modality
  31. Dangling between Diachrony, Register and Atticism: A Language Ecology Approach to Modal Morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek 373
  32. Information Source and Epistemic Modality in the Classical Usage of ἀνάγκη and ἀναγκαῖον 389
  33. The Preverb ἀντι- in Ancient Greek: From Space to Reciprocity 409
  34. Part V Syntax 3: Coordination and Subordination
  35. Null-Subject Genitive Absolute and Co-Referentiality in 5th Cent. BCE Ionic and Attic Prose 435
  36. On the Oblique Optative in Ionic and Attic Prose Completive Sentences with ὥζ and ὅτι: Remarks Towards a Comparative Study 451
  37. Relativization of Syntactic and Semantic Functions in Classical Greek: A Case Study Based on Sophocles’ Heptad 467
  38. Backgrounding, Theticals and Periphrastic τυγχάν∊ιν 483
  39. βούλ∊ι/-∊σθ∊, θέλ∊ιζ/-∊τ∊ Plus Subjunctive in Classical Greek: Subordination or Coordination? 499
  40. Relative Clauses in Septuagint Greek: Some Preliminary Remarks 515
  41. Addition Clauses in Ancient Greek 535
  42. Pragmatic and Discursive Functions of Non-Canonical Conditional Sentences 553
  43. The Mixed Pattern and the Other Conjunctive Strategies in Herodotus’ Greek: An Analysis from a Typological Perspective 569
  44. Participle Constructions in Post-Classical Greek: The Example of the “Confessions” of Asia Minor 587
  45. Part VI Pragmatics and Discourse
  46. Caesurae, Cola, and Discourse Acts: A Functional Discourse Grammar Approach to Homeric Colometry 609
  47. Vocative and ‘Terms of Address’ in the Odyssey 627
  48. The Pragmatics of Rhetorical Questions in Sophocles’ Tragedies: An Analysis of Antigone and Electra 641
  49. Verbal Impoliteness in Greek Oratory: The Case of οὗτοζ 659
  50. From Disjunct to Connective: The Particle οὖν in Herodotus’ Histories and its Association with Anaphoric Elements 671
  51. On the Use of the Interjection ὦ in the Dialogues of the Odyssey: An Analysis of (ὦ) γέρον, (ὦ) γύναι, and (ὦ) ξ∊ῖν∊ 683
  52. Structure and Function in Catalogic Discourse: The Case of Iliadic Androktasíai 701
  53. Part VII Digital Research
  54. Linguistic Annotation for a Catalog of Ancient Greek Authors and Works 721
  55. Formulaic Networks as Prototypical Categories: Combining the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank with the Ancient Greek WordNet for a Pilot Study on the Iliad 737
  56. Linguistic Complexity in Ancient Greek: Sentence Complexity and Digital Treebanks 759
  57. Representing Semantic Roles in Greek Treebanks 777
  58. “Proleptic” Arguments in the Greek Treebanks 795
  59. Tongue, Language or Noise? Word Sense Disambiguation in Ancient Greek with Corpus-Based Methods 813
  60. List of Contributors 829
  61. Index Locorum
  62. Index Rerum
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111648644-029

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents IX
  4. List of Figures and Diagrams XV
  5. List of Tables XVII
  6. Abbreviations XXI
  7. Part I History of the Greek Language, Phonetics, Morphology
  8. Linguistic Variation and the Study of Ancient Greek Dialects 3
  9. Open Questions in Ancient Greek Phonology: Some New Evidence from Enclitics 33
  10. Post-Nasal Deaspiration in Ancient Greek: Mirage or Reality? 65
  11. Greek Verbs in -βω: A Survey 81
  12. Action Nouns in -τιζ/-σιζ as Second Members of Nominal Compounds in Greek 93
  13. The Syntax and Semantics of ([N+V]V) Verbal Compounds in Ancient Greek 107
  14. Σκορακίζω: ‘Curse (by Saying ἐζ κόρακαζ)’. About Delocutive Derivation in Ancient Greek and Performative 127
  15. Part II Lexicon, Semantics
  16. Nature-based Metaphors as Body-part Terms in Ancient Greek: On καρπόζ ‘Wrist’ and ἀστράγαλοζ ‘Ankle(Bone)’ 147
  17. Grammaticalization of Adverbs in Ancient Greek: The Case of Homeric μάλα 159
  18. Smells like Metonymy 179
  19. Cultural Reconstruction through Linguistic Analysis: The Case of AG ταρχύω and ταριχ∊ύω 195
  20. On Hom. ἐπίφρων and πρόφρων in View of Homeric Human Physiology 211
  21. Analytical Constructions and Synthetic Encoding of Complex Predicates at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface 225
  22. Part III Syntax 1: Clause
  23. Number Agreement of a Predicate in Singular with Two or More Coordinated Noun Phrases in Nominative in Homer 247
  24. The Construction of the Verb μιμνήσκομαι in the Homeric Language 261
  25. On a Double Case Construction in Ancient Greek: The Whole-Part Construction in Homeric Greek 279
  26. Taking Stock of Greek Support-Verb Constructions: Synchronic and Diachronic Variability in the Documentary Papyri 297
  27. Hyperbaton in Herodotus: A Functional Discourse Grammar Perspective 315
  28. Adverb Placement in Demosthenes’ First Philippic 335
  29. Case Attraction in Infinitive Clauses: A Distributive Account 351
  30. Part IV Syntax 2: Verb and Modality
  31. Dangling between Diachrony, Register and Atticism: A Language Ecology Approach to Modal Morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek 373
  32. Information Source and Epistemic Modality in the Classical Usage of ἀνάγκη and ἀναγκαῖον 389
  33. The Preverb ἀντι- in Ancient Greek: From Space to Reciprocity 409
  34. Part V Syntax 3: Coordination and Subordination
  35. Null-Subject Genitive Absolute and Co-Referentiality in 5th Cent. BCE Ionic and Attic Prose 435
  36. On the Oblique Optative in Ionic and Attic Prose Completive Sentences with ὥζ and ὅτι: Remarks Towards a Comparative Study 451
  37. Relativization of Syntactic and Semantic Functions in Classical Greek: A Case Study Based on Sophocles’ Heptad 467
  38. Backgrounding, Theticals and Periphrastic τυγχάν∊ιν 483
  39. βούλ∊ι/-∊σθ∊, θέλ∊ιζ/-∊τ∊ Plus Subjunctive in Classical Greek: Subordination or Coordination? 499
  40. Relative Clauses in Septuagint Greek: Some Preliminary Remarks 515
  41. Addition Clauses in Ancient Greek 535
  42. Pragmatic and Discursive Functions of Non-Canonical Conditional Sentences 553
  43. The Mixed Pattern and the Other Conjunctive Strategies in Herodotus’ Greek: An Analysis from a Typological Perspective 569
  44. Participle Constructions in Post-Classical Greek: The Example of the “Confessions” of Asia Minor 587
  45. Part VI Pragmatics and Discourse
  46. Caesurae, Cola, and Discourse Acts: A Functional Discourse Grammar Approach to Homeric Colometry 609
  47. Vocative and ‘Terms of Address’ in the Odyssey 627
  48. The Pragmatics of Rhetorical Questions in Sophocles’ Tragedies: An Analysis of Antigone and Electra 641
  49. Verbal Impoliteness in Greek Oratory: The Case of οὗτοζ 659
  50. From Disjunct to Connective: The Particle οὖν in Herodotus’ Histories and its Association with Anaphoric Elements 671
  51. On the Use of the Interjection ὦ in the Dialogues of the Odyssey: An Analysis of (ὦ) γέρον, (ὦ) γύναι, and (ὦ) ξ∊ῖν∊ 683
  52. Structure and Function in Catalogic Discourse: The Case of Iliadic Androktasíai 701
  53. Part VII Digital Research
  54. Linguistic Annotation for a Catalog of Ancient Greek Authors and Works 721
  55. Formulaic Networks as Prototypical Categories: Combining the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank with the Ancient Greek WordNet for a Pilot Study on the Iliad 737
  56. Linguistic Complexity in Ancient Greek: Sentence Complexity and Digital Treebanks 759
  57. Representing Semantic Roles in Greek Treebanks 777
  58. “Proleptic” Arguments in the Greek Treebanks 795
  59. Tongue, Language or Noise? Word Sense Disambiguation in Ancient Greek with Corpus-Based Methods 813
  60. List of Contributors 829
  61. Index Locorum
  62. Index Rerum
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