Greek Word Order [Paperback]

The order of words in a Greek sentence is much freer and less predictable than in most European languages. The author explains and illustrates the principles which govern word order in Greek. He finds three: the tendency of certain words to take a constant position; certain types of logical relation between the sentence and its context; and the tendency to adhere to familiar patterns. His three main chapters discuss word order dictated by lexical or semantic, by syntactical, and by logical determinants.

All students of Greek from the first year undergraduates upwards, and all teachers of Greek need copies of this book  the only one in English on the subject. It has been reissued, after a considerable period out of print, and appears for the first time in paperback.

The order of words in a Greek sentence is much freer and less predictable than in most European languages. This book explains and illustrates the principles which govern word order in Greek.

Preface
Bibliography
I THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
(i) Indeterminacy
(ii) Types of determinant
(iii) Material
II LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC DETERMINANTS
(i) Postpositives and prepositives
(ii) Types of clause
(iii) Preferential words
III SYNTACTICAL DETERMINANTS
(i) General principles
(ii) Preferential words
(iii) Ordinary words
IV LOGICAL DETERMINANTS
(A) General principles
(i) Emphasis
(ii) Logical categories
(B) Concomitants
(i) Treatment of concomitants as postpositives
(ii) Concomitant groups
(iii) Treatment of concomitants as prepositives
(iv) Preferential treatment of concomitants
(c) Nuclei
(i) Series
(ii) Formulae
V STYLE
Index of passages