The pragmatics of the past : a novel typology of conditionals with past tenses in Ancient Greek Ghent University
This article argues for a typology of conditionals in Ancient Greek based on pragmatic rather than formal (e.g., mood) or semantic (e.g., temporal reference) criteria. It does so by proposing a novel pragmatic typology of conditionals with past tenses for Archaic and Classical Greek based on a corpus analysis of 973 conditionals. This article distinguishes 6 different pragmatic usages which generalise over mood and temporal variations: ...