The Verb 'Be' in Ancient Greek

✍ Scribed by Charles H. Kahn

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Inc
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 554
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a systematic description of the use and grammar of the verb 'to be' in Ancient Greek, before the philosophers took it over to express the central concepts in Greek logic and metaphysics. The evidence is taken primarily from Homer, but supplemented by specimens from classical Attic prose. Topics discussed include the original status of the verb in Indo-European, as well as the logical and syntactic relations among copula, existential, and veridical uses.

✦ Table of Contents

THE VERB 'BE' IN ANCIENT GREEK......Page 5
INTRODUCTION (2003)......Page 7
Appendix to Introduction......Page 33
Bibliography for Introduction (2003)......Page 40
CONTENTS......Page 43
PREFACE......Page 45
I / THE PROBLEM OF THE VERB 'BE'......Page 51
II / SUBJECT, PREDICATE, COPULA......Page 52
III / APPLICATION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS TO GREEK......Page 53
IV / DESCRIPTION OF THE COPULA USES......Page 54
V / THE THEORY OF THE COPULA......Page 58
VI / THE VERB OF EXISTENCE......Page 62
VII / THE VERIDICAL USE......Page 64
VIII / THE UNITY OF THE SYSTEM OF 'BE' IN GREEK......Page 66
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 67
I. INTRODUCTION. THE PROBLEM OF THE VERB 'BE'......Page 69
II. SUBJECT, PREDICATE, COPULA......Page 106
III. APPLICATION OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS TO GREEK......Page 128
IV. DESCRIPTION OF THE COPULA USES......Page 153
V. THE THEORY OF THE COPULA......Page 252
VI. THE VERB OF EXISTENCE......Page 296
VII. THE VERIDICAL USE......Page 399
VIII. THE UNITY OF THE SYSTEM OF 'BE' IN GREEK......Page 439
Appendix A. ON THE ACCENT OF ἐστί AND ITS POSITIONIN THE SENTENCE......Page 488
Appendix B. ON THE THEORY OF THE NOMINAL SENTENCE......Page 503
Appendix C. THE NOMINALIZED FORMS OF THE VERB: τὸ ὄν AND οὐσία......Page 521
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 531
INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED......Page 536
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES......Page 547
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 549

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