Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22048.lar" target="_blank" >10.1075/jhl.22048.lar</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization

Original language description

Polarity reversal has recently been argued to be the defining characteristic of counterfactuality. Ancient Greek had a diverse set of constructions which bring about polarity reversal that is not the direct result of a negation marker nor do they all express a counterfactual meaning. It is the aim of this paper to detail the major differences between these constructions synchronically and especially diachronically, focusing on counterfactual mood forms, counterfactual modal verbs, avertives (almost+past (im)perfective), non-counterfactual rhetorical questions and non-standard wishes. As a historically varied constructional group, these constructions bring about polarity reversal in different ways with different implicatures (e.g., counterfactual, contradictory, undesirable), but they most importantly differ in their diachronic conventionalization of polarity reversal. Whereas counterfactuals conventionalize their polarity reversal in various ways (e.g., changing temporal reference, counterfactual implicature transfer), non-counterfactual polarity reversal constructions create polarity reversal as a synchronic implicature through pragmatic means (e.g., a rhetorical question identifying a contradictory presupposition in the common ground or a non-standard wish evaluating an undesirable outcome to the speaker). © John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Historical Linguistics

ISSN

22102116

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

41

Pages from-to

335 - 375

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187689585