Journal article
Protagoras and the beginnings of grammar
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S175027052100004X
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Cambridge Classical Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 67
- Pages:
- 66 - 92
- Publication date:
- 2021-08-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-29
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2047-993X
- ISSN:
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1750-2705
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1173978
- Local pid:
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pubs:1173978
- Deposit date:
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2021-04-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Huitink and Willi.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Cambridge Philological Society
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S175027052100004X
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