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Sobre el orden de palabras en griego: el genitivo adnominal
Author(s) -
Emilio Crespo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1981.v49.i1.810
Subject(s) - philosophy , humanities
The aim of this to show that the relative order of Genetive and governing noun is determined, at least in Attic litterary prose of ca. 400 B. C., by a syntactic rule, according to which, Ablative or Partitive Genetive follows the main noun and Possessive Genetive goes before the modified noun. A selection from Lysias, Thucydides, Antiphon, Andocides, and Pseudo-Xenophon's Resp. Ath. has been taken into account for the purpose. The syntactic determination of Greek word order being at any case taken for granted, a set of gexical rules in previously established in order to give a sounder account of the evidence; in the author's view, the disproving instances are due either to emphatic reasons or to the overlapping of two rules. A second class of lexical rules can be inferred from the position of the article. May the proposed syntactic rule be right, Classical Greek is a VO language as well a OV one

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