PROTAGORAS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF GRAMMAR

Autor: Luuk Huitink, Andreas Willi
Přispěvatelé: ASH (FGw)
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Cambridge Classical journal, 67, 66-92. Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 2047-993X
1750-2705
DOI: 10.1017/s175027052100004x
Popis: Offering a reevaluation of all the available evidence, including passages from Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Poetics, and Sophistici Elenchi, Diogenes Laertius’ biographical sketch as well as the grammar scene in Aristophanes’ Clouds, the article argues that Protagoras’ engagement with grammatical questions must have been more sophisticated and thorough than is often assumed. In Protagoras’ discovery of grammatical gender, formal considerations – most likely inspired by the analysis of personal names – played a more fundamental role than semantic ones, and his typology of πυθμένες λόγων equally presupposes the formal recognition of at least verbal mood, if not also tense.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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