'Nobody else': word order in Greek funerary inscriptions from Asia Minor and in Lycian

• Autores: José Marcos Macedo
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 97, 2021, págs. 158-177
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A large number of Greek funerary inscriptions from Asia Minor prohibit unauthorized burial by stating that, apart from those the funerary monument is intended for, “no one else” is allowed to be interred in it. The phrase is formulaic, but the internal word ordering of the constituent varies apparently at random, figuring either as ἕτερος/ἄλλος οὐ-/μηδείς or as οὐ- /μηδεὶς ἕτερος/ἄλλος. A full survey of the corpus provided by the Searchable Greek Inscriptions shows that there is a consistent preference for one alternative over the other depending on the position the constituent occupies within the clause. It is shown that Greek phrasing and word order in all likelihood goes back to Lycian funerary inscriptions, where a constituent with synonymous elements (kbi tike or tike kbi) shifts its internal word order according to its relative position in the sentence