TY - BOOK ID - 85793954 TI - The syntax and semantics of Wh-clauses in classical Greek : relatives, interrogatives, exclamatives PY - 2021 SN - 9789004467521 9789004467538 9004467521 900446753X PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Greek language KW - Syntax. KW - Relative clauses. KW - Interrogative. KW - Exclamations. KW - Greek & Latin Linguistics KW - Indo-European Languages KW - Morphology & Syntax KW - Exclamations KW - Interrogative KW - Relative clauses KW - Syntax KW - Classical languages KW - Indo-European languages KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Aryan languages KW - Indo-Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85793954 AB - Adapting tools recently developed in general linguistics and dwelling on a solid corpus study, this book offers the first comprehensive view on Classical Greek wh -clauses since Monteil (1963) and scrutinizes how wh -items (ὅς, ὅστις, τίς) distribute across the different clause types. False ideas are discarded (e.g., there are no τίς relative clauses, ὅστις does not take over ὅς' functions). This essay furthermore teases apart actual neutralization and so-far-unknown subtle distinctions. Who knew that ὅστις is featured in three different types of appositive clauses? In the interrogative domain, an analysis is given of what licenses ὅς to pop in and τίς to pop out. Tackling these topics and more, this essay draws a coherent picture of the wh -clause system, whose basis is the notion of (non)identification. ER -