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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry 10.17863/CAM.16536 Fraser, Bruce L. The thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to the structure of compound and complex sentences. The discussion undertakes a systematic survey of subject, verb, and object order in a corpus of texts, proposes an explanation for the observed order, and develops a model which explains how prominence within the clause is exploited in clause linking to produce the complement structures observed in Homeric and tragic complementation. University of Cambridge 1999-11-16 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) en This work was supported by the British Academy and by the Cambridge Faculty of Classics. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/219499 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/219499 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/a89e20a6-4f5c-4e43-910d-f9bfeed32246/download 852a9731bd754c6e74c3342625a60237 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/67212550-2c33-45c0-95d8-7b0730b244e6/download 0e053d1adecc1b5a38b715f4ea116400 https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ historical linguistics Ancient Greek literature word order syntax Greek tragedy complementation focalisation clausal subordination comparing poetry and prose enclitics topic and focus