Language of Literature

Rutger J. Allan, Ph.D. (2002) in Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam, is Lecturer of Ancient Greek at the Free University of Amsterdam. He is the author of various publications on Ancient Greek linguistics, including The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek: A Study in Polysemy (2003).Michel Buijs, Ph.D. (2003) in Ancient Greek, Leiden University, teaches Greek and Latin at Utrecht University and Leiden University. He is the author of Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse. The Distribution of Subclauses and Participial Clauses in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis (2005).

Most of the papers in this volume were given at the Conference on Greek and Latin Linguistics (Katwijk, 16-17 December 2005), held in honour of Albert Rijksbaron, to whom the book is dedicated. The conference aimed at building a bridge between literary and linguistic studies of texts in Greek and Latin by applying methods and models developed in the field of narratology and in that of discourse oriented linguistic analysis, to which the honoree has contributed widely throughout his scholarly career. The resulting volume shows that this is a fruitful area of research. [...] It is to be hoped that this stimulating collection of papers will further the interest that linguists and scholars in literary studies take in each other's fields. As this volume shows in a remarkable way, there is much to be gained by a broader perspective. Daniel Kölligan in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.07.01