The augment in Homer, with special attention to speech introductions and conclusions
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The augment in Homer, with special attention to speech introductions and conclusions. (2024). JournaLIPP, 4, 53-71. https://doi.org/10.5282/journalipp/4841

Abstract

In this article, we will show that the use of the augment in Homeric speech introductions and conclusions was not random, but could be explained by morphometric, syntactic and semantic constraints. Later, these rules were no longer understood: the augment became a mandatory marker of past tense in Greek prose, while its absence in Homer (which was also motivated by rules  and  constraints)  was  reinterpreted  as  an  archaism  and  an  element  of  the  poetic language.  The  article  only  focuses  on  Homeric  speech  introductions  and  conclusions,  and leaves  out  a discussion of  Homer  and epic poetry in  general,  of  Mycenaean and the other Indo-European languages that have the augment.
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