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Although Ancient Greek word order is flexible, in there a default word order? Since the Ancient Greeks used word order to emphasize certain words, that assumese there must be a NEUTRAL word order, a default position for words. Believe it or not, our understanding of Ancient Greek word order has only quite recently matured, and in this video I’ll introduce you to and very practical, indeed, a highly pragmatic approach that will bring much-needed order to the apparent syntatic chaos of Ancient Greek.
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
#greek #ancientgreek
00:00 Intro to Syntactic Chaos
01:17 General Tendencies in AG Word Order
02:37 Example from Plato, Crito
04:35 Two Approaches to Clause Word Order
07:29 What is the Pragmatic Approach?
07:58 Sources Cited
08:53 Example: Plato, Lysis - BROAD Focus
10:45 NARROW Focus
11:44 BROAD vs. NARROW Focus Clauses
14:00 Herodotus 4.1.3 - Broad Focus
16:10 Aristophanes Eccl. 1037 - Narrow Focus
20:42 Xen. Ana. 1.5.3 - Narrow Focus
21:42 Xen. Ana. 4.6.1 - Broad Focus
23:30 Review of Narrow & Broad Focus
31:10 Back to Plato, Crito
34:52 Left & Right Periphery
39:27 Postpositives
42:32 Squirrels, Cardinals, & Chickadees
Although Ancient Greek word order is flexible, in there a default word order? Since the Ancient Greeks used word order to emphasize certain words, that assumese there must be a NEUTRAL word order, a default position for words. Believe it or not, our understanding of Ancient Greek word order has only quite recently matured, and in this video I’ll introduce you to and very practical, indeed, a highly pragmatic approach that will bring much-needed order to the apparent syntatic chaos of Ancient Greek.
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📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
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🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus"
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☕️ Support my work with PayPal:
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And if you like, do consider joining this channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join
🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
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🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
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🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
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🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
#greek #ancientgreek
00:00 Intro to Syntactic Chaos
01:17 General Tendencies in AG Word Order
02:37 Example from Plato, Crito
04:35 Two Approaches to Clause Word Order
07:29 What is the Pragmatic Approach?
07:58 Sources Cited
08:53 Example: Plato, Lysis - BROAD Focus
10:45 NARROW Focus
11:44 BROAD vs. NARROW Focus Clauses
14:00 Herodotus 4.1.3 - Broad Focus
16:10 Aristophanes Eccl. 1037 - Narrow Focus
20:42 Xen. Ana. 1.5.3 - Narrow Focus
21:42 Xen. Ana. 4.6.1 - Broad Focus
23:30 Review of Narrow & Broad Focus
31:10 Back to Plato, Crito
34:52 Left & Right Periphery
39:27 Postpositives
42:32 Squirrels, Cardinals, & Chickadees
