[B-Greek] Review of "Greek Prepositions"
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Mon Feb 14 09:58:35 EST 2011
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Review is at:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-728.html
AUTHOR: Bortone, Pietro
TITLE: Greek Prepositions
SUBTITLE: From Antiquity to the Present
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press
YEAR: 2010
Coulter H. George, Department of Classics, University of Virginia
SUMMARY
In this book, Bortone (henceforth B.) traces the development of the
Greek
prepositional system over the course of its entire 3000-year history.
The first
third of the book deals with general theoretical issues about the
syntactic and
semantic description of prepositions, cases, and the relationship
between them.
B. devotes particular attention to the localistic hypothesis (the idea
that
spatial uses are primary), a concept that provides a consistent
orientation to
the remainder of the book, which takes synchronic snapshots of four
different
periods of Greek (Ancient, Hellenistic, Medieval, and Modern) in order
to
establish the bigger diachronic picture.
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Enjoy!
James
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