The Negative Compounds In Greek A Dissertation By Hollister Adelbert Hamilton PDF Download

Excerpt from The Negative Compounds in Greek: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The study of the negative compounds in Greek may afford a single chapter in the history of noun-composition in that language, a subject which has not yet received a comprehensive treatment, nor one which is commensurate with its importance in more than one department of philology. The compounds of alpha-privative make one of the largest groups and one of the simplest types of composite word-formation and the investigation has a varied interest as we may approach our task from the formal, the semantic, the stylistic, or the historical side. Thus we may consider first the forms in which the negative prefix appears, the restrictions of its use in composition, and the types of compounds which are formed by it. Again, the semasiological character of these compounds claims attention, both as to the various shades of negative conceptions and relations which they may express and as to the part which they play in comparison with other means which the language possesses for negative expression. In the third place the employment of these compounds has a stylistic importance, especially where they appear massed together, where they belong to certain poetic or technical spheres, or where they are used as the vehicles of certain figurative forms of expression. Finally, we have to give some account of the history of the formation and use of the negative compounds in the various departments of the literature and through the different periods of the language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.