Studies in Greek epic metre, diction and verbal morphology: the use of (un)augmented verb forms in the "Apologoi"

• Autores: Filip De Decker
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 132, 2019, págs. 41-123
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article I analyse the use of the augment in the Apologoi (Books 9 to 12 of the Odyssey). I first explain why I have chosen this work and these books. Second, I describe my methodology in analysing and determining my corpus. As the transmission of the Homeric poems has been problematic, I decided to work only with the forms that are secured by the metre and I therefore describe which morphological rules, metrical laws and bridges render the augment in a form secure (or not). Based on that corpus, I proceed to the actual analysis. In analysing the data I compare the previous (morphological, syntactic and semantic) observations on the augment to the data of the Apologoi. My findings show that the explanation of the augment as a foregrounding device is largely confirmed, but that there are nevertheless exceptions.