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Publication details [#6140]

Létoublon, Françoise. 1980. Le vocabulaire de la supplication en grec: Performatif et dérivation délocutive: Hikétés et hikano, lite et lissomai. Lingua 52 : 325–336.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

begging | delocutivity | performative

Language as a subject

Greek, Ancient

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Discussion of some cases of derivation of a noun from a verb in classical Greek. L. argues that in the historical process, performative utterances (with the first person form of the verb in question) must have played a role.