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Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse
Authors' Note
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I.1 General introduction
I.2 From σύνδεσμοι to particulae
I.3 Approaches to particles and discourse markers
I.4 General conclusions
I.5 Particle frequencies in Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Thucydides
I.6 Bibliography
I.7 Particle index
I.8 Index locorum
II.1 Introduction
II.2 Discourse acts: The domain of particle analysis
II.3 Moves: Particles at discourse transitions
II.4 Discourse Memory: The negotiation of shared knowledge
II.5 Particles and Anaphoric Reference: A discourse perspective on particles with third-person pronouns
III.1 Introduction
III.2 Varying one’s speech: Discourse patterns
III.3 Reusing others’ words: Resonance
III.4 Speaking in turns: Conversation Analysis
III.5 Reflecting emotional states of mind: Calmness versus agitation
IV.1 Introduction
IV.2 Multifunctionality of δέ, τε, and καί
IV.3 Discourse segmentation
IV.4 Tracking voice and stance
IV.5 Analysis of four excerpts
V Online Repository of Particle Studies
I.7 Particle index
ἀλλά | ||
as priming act in Her. 8.108.4 | IV.5 §63 | |
introducing a new move in Her. and T. | IV.4 §162; IV.5 §79 | |
marking dispreferred responses in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §54 | |
reflecting explicitly subjective discourse in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§64-68 | |
ἄρα | ||
accessing the discourse memory in Hom. | II.4 §§38-41, §§50-53; II.5 §§51-62 | |
different uses in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§165-166, §179 | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §96 | |
marking epistemic stance in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§171-172 | |
marking frame recall in Hom. and P. | II.3 §§65-67; II.5 §§51-62 | |
marking unframed discourse in Her. | IV.4 §§169-170 | |
with verba dicendi and verba sentiendi in Her. | IV.4 nn246-248 | |
ὅς ῥα in Hom. | II.5 §§59-62 | |
see also > δ᾽ ἄρα | ||
ἀτάρ | ||
introducing new conversational sequences in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§39-40 | |
γάρ | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§50-57 | |
in priming acts in Her. and T. | IV.3 §110; IV.5 §78 | |
interacting with resonance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §§95-99 | |
introducing gnômai in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §54 | |
introducing embedded narratives in Hom. | II.3 §§20-32 | |
introducing embedded narratives or narrative expansions in Her. and T. | IV.3 §§109-110 | |
introducing unframed discourse in Hom. and P. | II.4 §§15-28 | |
introducing unframed discourse in Her. and T. | IV.3 §§108-109; IV.4 §27, §59; IV.5 §91 | |
marking de re or de dicto explanations in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§51-54 | |
marking expansion or indignant inference in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§55-56 | |
starting a move in Her. and T. | IV.3 §108; IV.4 §60, §§101-102, §106, §72; IV.5 §16, §19, §27, §39, §61, §68, §77, §§94-95 | |
γὰρ δή in Her. and T. | IV.4 §86 (Her.); IV.4 §106, §121, §148 (T.) | |
see also > δὴ γάρ, καὶ γάρ, μὲν γάρ | ||
γε | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§58-63 | |
in answers in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §62 | |
in stance-taking in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§63-64 | |
interacting with resonance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §§76-79, §100 | |
“limitative” value | IV.4 §41 and n55 | |
marking emotional involvement in Her. and T. | IV.4 n52; IV.5 §20 (T.), §34 | |
marking prosodic prominence | IV.3 n15; IV.4 §40 and n51, n54 | |
marking the author’s voice/voice and stance in Her. and T. | IV.4 §12, §§40-44, §92, §102; IV.5 §110 | |
marking the character’s voice in Her. and T. | IV.5 §20, §62, §§67-68, §73 | |
reflecting agitation in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §100; III.5 §§45-47, §50 | |
reflecting anger in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.5 §§51-58 | |
reflecting a foregrounded speaker in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §60; III.5 §45 | |
ὅ γε as a cluster | II.5 §§27-29 | |
ὅ γε retrieving unexpressed referents in Hom. | II.5 §§35-40 | |
γε δή | ||
expressing the authors’ voice in Her. and T. | IV.4 §119n162 | |
πρὶν γε δή marking narrative peaks in Her. and T. | IV.4 n143 | |
γε μάν | ||
marking an associative link in P. | II.2 §76 | |
see also > δέ γε/δέ... γε, ἦ που γε δή | ||
δέ | ||
“adversative” and “continuative” δέ in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§15-16 | |
and calmness in A., S., and E. | III.5 §§85-86 | |
and unframed discourse in Her. and T. | IV.2 §20 | |
“apodotic” δέ in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§36-37 | |
at narrative transitions in P. | II.3 §§65-67 | |
at narrative transitions in A., S., and E. | III.2 §§27-30 | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§24-32 | |
“inceptive“ δέ in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§32-35 | |
in priming acts in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.5 §§31-32 | |
in priming acts in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§24-25, §§38-41; IV.3 §57, §89, §107; §§113-115; IV.5 §32, §59 | |
its pragmatic meaning as the only constant | IV.2 §§14-17, §§42-46 | |
“paratactic” ὥστε + δέ in T. | IV.2 §21 | |
“postponed” δέ in Her. and T. | IV.2 §31 | |
prototypical boundary marker in Hom. | II.2 §§31-36 | |
starting (anti)strophes in choral songs in A. | III.2 §§24-26 | |
starting syntactically diverse acts in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§18-41; IV.4 §42; IV.5 §§25-26, §107 | |
starting turns in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§34-35, §§37-38, §46, §65 | |
δέ constructions starting a move in Her. and T. | IV.2 §39; IV.3 §107, §§113-115 | |
ὁ δέ in Hom. | II.5 §§19-26 | |
ὅτι δέ in Her. and T. | IV.4 n223 | |
δ᾽ ἄρα | ||
marking frame recall in Hom. and P. | II.5 §§51-58 | |
ὡς δὲ ἄρα/ὡς δ’ ἄρα marking frame recall in Her. | IV.4 §§167-168 | |
δέ γε/δέ... γε | ||
interacting with resonance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §§80-83 | |
δὲ δή | ||
combination in Her. | IV.4 §86 | |
δὲ καί | ||
decoupled in function and scope | IV.2 n201 | |
δέ τε | ||
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in Hom. | IV.2 §55, §57 | |
see also > καὶ δέ | ||
δή | ||
as a mobile constituent in Hom. | II.3 §41, §§60-61 | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§73-79 | |
distribution in Her. and T. | IV.4 §88, §110 | |
distribution in Hom. | II.3 §§54-55 | |
intensifying constituents or acts in Hom. and P. | II.3 §§59-63; II.5 §§63-71 | |
“ironic” δή | IV.4 §84 | |
“ironic” δή suggesting alignment between author and audience in Her. (polyphonically) | IV.4 §§104-108 | |
marking information as perceptible or evident in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§75-79 | |
marking information as perceptible or evident in Her. | IV.4 §§92-93; IV.5 §79 | |
marking move transitions together with a οὗτος form in Her. and T. | IV.3 §§127-128 | |
marking narrative progression in Her. | IV.3 §129; IV.4 §§89-91 | |
marking narrative progression in Hom. | II.3 §§53-58 | |
marking stance in authorial statements in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§101-103 (Her.); IV.4 §60, §§116-118 (T.) | |
marking stance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §74 | |
marking stance in direct speech in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§112-113; IV.5 §84 | |
marking stance in indirect speech and indirect thought in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§94-100 (Her.); §§114-115 (T.); IV.5 §110 | |
marking transitions in Apollonius Dyscolus | IV.3 n239 | |
mostly occurring in combinations and in recurrent constructions in Her. | IV.4 §86 | |
possibly suggesting irony in T. | IV.4 §§123-126 | |
similar and different uses in Her. and T. | IV.4 §127 | |
suggesting alignment between author and characters in T. (polyphonically) | IV.1 §8; IV.4 §§121-122; IV.5 §38 | |
with superlatives and scalar expressions in Hom. | II.3 §§60-61 | |
with superlatives and scalar expressions in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §74 | |
with superlative, comparative, and scalar expressions in Her. and T. | IV.4 §95, §113, §116; IV.5 §38 | |
δὴ τότε introducing narrative peaks in Hom. | II.3 §58 | |
οἷον δή/οἷα δή conveying emotional involvement in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§118-119 | |
δὴ γάρ | ||
introducing free indirect thought in Hom. | II.4 §§19-20 | |
see also > γε δή, ἤδη/ἦ δή, ἦ που δή, ἦ που γε δή, καὶ δή, καὶ δὴ καί, μὲν δή, ὦν δή, τε δή | ||
δῆθεν | ||
marking more stances at once (polyphonically) | IV.4 §§128-136, §177 | |
δήπου | ||
marking authorial stance in T. | IV.4 §112n144 | |
δῆτα | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§58-63 | |
interacting with resonance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §§84-88 | |
reflecting agitation in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.5 §45, §§49-50 | |
reflecting foregrounded speaker in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §60 | |
ἦ | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§85-89 | |
in emotional stancetaking in A., S., and E. | III.2 §§88-89 | |
in questions in A., S., and E. | III.2 §§86-87; III.4 §47 | |
with interjectional force at move boundaries | II.3 §35 and §§40-43 | |
ἤδη/ἦ δή | ||
introducing embedded discourse in Hom. | II.3 §§33-43 | |
ἤδη | ||
as the equivalent of propositional “now” in Her. and T. | IV.4 §161 and n233 | |
“evaluative particle” | IV.4 §143 | |
in authorial statements in Her. | IV.4 n210 | |
in indirect speech in T. | IV.4 §219 | |
marking epistemic stance about space in Her. | IV.4 §150 | |
marking epistemic stance about time in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§160-161 | |
marking first-hand experience/subjective perception in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§151-155, §164, §178; IV.5 §41, §65, §110 | |
marking stance in free indirect thought in T. | IV.4 §156 | |
resembling ἦ δή in function, in Her. and T. | IV.4 §155, §164 | |
sharing different co-texts with δή in Her. and T. | IV.4 §§146-150, §163, §175 | |
suggesting blending of stances, and alignment between author and characters in T. | IV. 4 §§157-159, §§225-226 | |
vs. νῦν | IV.4 n229 | |
with κατὰ κράτος in T. | IV.4 §154 and n217 | |
with superlative, comparative, and scalar expressions in Her. and T. | IV.4 §146, §§148-149, n155, n206 | |
γὰρ ἤδη in T. | IV.4 n200 | |
ἤδη γάρ in Her. and T. | IV.4 n200 | |
ἤδη ὦν in Her. | IV.4 n195 | |
ἦ μήν | ||
evoking direct speech in indirect speech in T. | IV.4 §§32-33 | |
= ἦ μέν in Her. | IV.4 n34 | |
ἦ που δή, ἦ που γε δή | ||
expressing subjective certainty in T. | IV.4 §112 | |
καί | ||
after relative pronouns | IV.2 §103 | |
as “or” in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§117-121 | |
as priming act in Her. and T. | IV.3 §§111-112; IV.5 §46 | |
different enrichments in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§114-116; IV.1 §5 | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§33-38 | |
high frequency creating accumulation effect in T. | IV.2 §132; IV.5 §39 and n47 | |
interacting with resonance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.3 §45, §§89-94 | |
introducing a climax in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§122-132 | |
introducing specifications in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§102-105; IV.5 §17, §43 | |
introducing specifications in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §36 | |
marking narrative peaks in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§106-107 | |
marking move ends in T. | IV.2 §§112-113; IV.5 §47 | |
much more frequent in T. than in Her. | IV.2 §7; IV.5 §109 | |
multifunctionality in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§33-38 | |
pattern “καί | x particle” in Her. and T. | IV.2 §108, §135, §143, nn174-175 | |
starting moves in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§108-111; IV.3 §§111-112; IV.4 §63 | |
starting turns in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §36 | |
superaddendi vis | IV.2 §122, nn200-201 | |
καί “adversativum” in Her. | IV.2 §115 | |
καί + μάλα/κάρτα/ὀρθῶς in Her. and T. | IV.2 §130, nn209-210 | |
καὶ τότε introducing narrative peaks | II.3 §58; IV.4 §158 | |
καί ... γε | ||
in Her. | IV.3 n51 | |
καὶ γάρ | ||
introducing associative embedded narratives in Hom. | II.3 §§30-32 | |
introducing associative specifications in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§98-99 | |
καὶ δέ | ||
having act or move scope in Hom. | IV.2 n175 | |
καὶ δή | ||
in descriptions of compliance in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§51-52 | |
marking an instantaneous and perceptual fact in Ar. | IV.2 §101 | |
pinning down an exciting turn in Her. | IV.2 §100; IV.3 §80 | |
starting a move in Her. | IV.5 §83 | |
use in narrator text in Her. and T. | IV.4 §86, §89, §91 | |
καὶ δὴ καί | ||
singling out the next subject in Her. | IV.2 §96; IV.4 §91 | |
δι’ ὃ δὴ καί in T. | IV.4 n141 | |
καὶ ἤδη | ||
same function as καὶ δή in Her. | IV.4 §147 | |
not act-initial in T. | IV.4 n199 | |
καί τε | ||
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in Hom. | IV.2 §§55-56 | |
καί τι καί | ||
introducing narrative expansions in T. | IV.2 §97 | |
καίτοι | ||
predominant in speeches in T. | IV.3 §38; IV.4 §36 | |
starting a move in Her. | IV.5 §79 | |
see also > δὲ καί, τε καί | ||
μέν | ||
and calmness in tragedy | III.5 §§34-37 | |
at move transitions together with a οὗτος form in Her. and T. | IV.3 §65, §§125-126; IV.5 §§32-33 | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§69-72 | |
projecting a non-straightforward answer in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §55 | |
projecting across metrical transitions in P. | II.2 §55; II.3 §73 | |
projecting across potential speaker transitions (floor-holding device) in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§28-30 | |
projecting multiple acts in Her. and T. | IV.3 §88, §140; IV.5 §33 | |
projecting similar conversational sequences in A., S., and E. | III.4 §33 | |
prototypical projection marker in Hom. and P. | II.2 §§46-62 | |
μέν… δέ and hostility in tragedy | III.5 §38 | |
μέν… δέ across subject or frame division in Her. and T. | IV.3 §§66-67; IV.5 §36, §§58-60 | |
μὲν γάρ | ||
starting a move in Her. | IV.3 §79 | |
μὲν δή | ||
at move transitions in Her. | IV.1 §6; IV.3 §§130-137, §§139-143; IV.4 §86, §89, n113 | |
exceptionally uttered by characters | IV.4 n146 | |
starting a move in T. | IV.3 n244 | |
μέν νυν | ||
at move transitions in Her. | IV.3 §§130-132, §§134-135, §§138-143, n237; IV.5 §56, §58 | |
in a priming act in Her. and T. | IV.3 §79 | |
μὲν οὖν | ||
as a cluster or combination in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§82-83 | |
at move transtitions in T. | IV.3 §§144-146 | |
μέντοι | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §96 | |
more frequent in non-direct speech in Her. and T. | IV.4 §36 | |
μήν (μάν) | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §96 | |
see also > ἦ μήν, γε μάν | ||
νυν | ||
exclusively in direct speech in Her. | IV.3 n246 | |
starting turns in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §44 | |
marking the return to the here-and-now in P. | II.5 §76, §79 | |
see also > μέν νυν | ||
οὖν/ὦν | ||
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§80-84 | |
in conversational pre-expansions in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §43, §45 | |
marking logical inferences or conclusions in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§81-82 | |
starting moves in Her. and T. | IV.5 §11, §64, §93, §97 | |
ὦν δή | ||
marking frame recall in Her. | IV.3 §79 | |
starting a move in Her. | IV.5 §80 | |
see also > μὲν οὖν | ||
που/κου | ||
very similar frequency in Her. and T. | IV.4 §112n144 | |
with propositional value | IV.5 n14 | |
see also > ἦ που δή, ἦ που γε δή | ||
τε | ||
and the coda effect in in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§78-79; IV.5 §62 | |
bisyndetic τε in Her. and T. | IV.2 §63, §68 | |
“epic” τε in Hom., Her. and T. | IV.2 §47, §49-50, §52, §54, §63, §§90-91, §140, n78, n82, n85, nn87-88, n96, n126. | |
distribution in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§39-49 | |
high frequency in Aristophanic choral songs | III.2 §44 | |
in priming acts in Her. and T. | IV.2 §87 | |
lack thereof in certain tragic choral songs | III.2 §42 | |
marking non-arbitrary coordination in P. | II.4 §§58-68 | |
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§58-60, §§65-69 | |
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in Hom. | II.4 §§32-37; IV.2 §§54-57 | |
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§39-49; IV.2 §64 | |
providing a solemn or formal tone in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.2 §§45-47 | |
“sentential” τε in Her. and T. | IV.2 §66, §69, §§76-77, §91, §143, n120, n159, n188. | |
starting moves in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§85-87; IV.5 §14, §22, §40, §§44-45, §74 | |
starting turns in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §27 | |
various enrichments thereof in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§70-73 | |
τε projecting καί in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§80-81; IV.5 §11 | |
τε… τε in Her. and T. | IV.2 §§62-63, §68 IV.5 §54 | |
τε δή | ||
starting conclusive statements in Her. and T. | IV.2 n173; IV.3 §122, §129 | |
τε καί | ||
marking shared traditional/encyclopedic knowledge in Her. and T. | IV.2 §68; IV.5 §36, §62, n96, §108 | |
see also > δέ τε, καί τε | ||
τοι | ||
as intensifier and attention-getting device in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §61 | |
connected to a persuasive intention in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §§58-60 | |
connected to a persuasive intention in Her. | IV.4 n37; IV.5 §§75-76, §93 | |
exceptional occurrences in narrator text in Her. | IV.4 §37 | |
frequency in A., S., E., and Ar. | III.4 §58 | |
predominant in speech in Her. | IV.4 §§34-36, §39 | |
τοιγάρ | ||
interacting with resonance in Ar. | III.3 §101 | |
τοιγάρ and τοιγάρτοι in Her. and T. predominant in speeches | IV.4 §36 | |
τοίνυν | ||
conveying disalignment in T. | IV.4 §61 | |
in authorial statements in Her. | IV.4 §38 | |
predominant in speeches in Her. and T. | IV.4 §36 |
See also the Table of Contents for sections and subsections including individual particles and particle combinations in the titles.