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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freiberg, Cassandra (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden, Germany : Reichert Verlag, [2024].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Language and the linguistic system
  • Prosody within the linguistic system
  • Prosodic structure
  • Prosodic profile of Ancient Greek
  • Re-evaluation: Methods and sources for approaching prosody in an ancient language
  • Motivating prosodic structure
  • Phrasal prosody in Herodotus.