Ezra la Roi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ezra la Roi plays a role.
Articles
2024 Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:2, pp. 335–375 | Article
Polarity reversal has recently been argued to be the defining characteristic of counterfactuality. Ancient Greek had a diverse set of constructions which bring about polarity reversal that is not the direct result of a negation marker nor do they all express a counterfactual meaning. It is the… read more
2022 Weaving together the diverse threads of category change: Intersubjective ἀμέλει ‘of course’ and imperative particles in Ancient Greek Diachronica 39:2, pp. 159–192 | Article
This paper investigates category changes among imperative particles in Ancient Greek. Using diachronic evidence from the category change of the imperative ἀμέλει (amélei ‘don’t worry’ > ‘of course’) and similar imperative particles, ἄγε (áge), ἴθι (íthi), φέρε (fére), εἰπέ μοι (eipé moi) and ἰδού… read more