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

The prosody of Ancient Greek has been the subject of extensive research, despite the limited information available from a corpus language in this domain. Allen (1973), along with Devine & Stephens (1994), is a landmark in this field, while Agbayani & Golston (2010) have sought to apply concepts from general phonology to the texts. Meanwhile, … Continue reading Discourse pragmatics and prosodic reconstruction: a new approach to prosodic structure in Herodotus’ Histories and beyond