The Colon Hypothesis: Word Order, Discourse Segmentation ...
Scheppers, Frank
Offering a wealth of detailed information concerning topics in Ancient Greek linguistics - including clisis, apositivity, lexicalization phenomena, sentencehood, and genre - this study argues that a number of Ancient Greek word order rules apply to the 'colon' or 'intonation unit' rather than to syntactic units such as the clause. Based on an extensive corpus-database, comprising the whole Corpus Lysiacum and four Platonic dialogues, this refe...