Discourse pragmatics and prosodic reconstruction : a new approach to prosodic structure in Herodotus' Histories and beyond /

The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction, especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase, as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the prosodic structure also of modern languages...

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Main Author: Freiberg, Cassandra (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden, Germany : Reichert Verlag, [2024].
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Summary:The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction, especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase, as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the prosodic structure also of modern languages and introduces a new method for prosodic reconstruction that is based on a general correspondence of prosodic with pragmatic units. Its main empirical focus lies on ancient Greek and a well-defined subcorpus of Herodotus' Histories (Croesus logos, Hdt. 1.6-94).
Physical Description:360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-360).
ISBN:3752007613
9783752007619