Bachelor thesis | Griekse en Latijnse taal en cultuur (BA)
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This thesis challenges the mainstream consensus on verbal aspect in Classical Greek, which is mainly based on a view of aspect propagated by Bernard Comrie (1976). As an alternative, this thesis...Show moreThis thesis challenges the mainstream consensus on verbal aspect in Classical Greek, which is mainly based on a view of aspect propagated by Bernard Comrie (1976). As an alternative, this thesis combines different strands of linguistic research traditions to paint an alternative picture of aspect: Wolfgang Klein's (1994) notion of topic time, Michael Halliday's (1985) idea of "three interpretational levels" (the referential, the textual, and the interactional), Christiaan Sicking's (1991) suggestion of verbal aspect signalling information status, and the idea of meaning as a polysemous network of uses. With this, I refine and add to important work done by Simon Aerts (2014), who first suggested modelling Greek aspect after Michael Halliday's semiotic theory (1985). After this is worked out in the second and third chapter, this view of aspect is applied to circumstantial participles in Greek.Show less
