title: Nonveridicality and the Use of οὐ and μή in Rhetorical Questions in Classical Greek
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metadata.value: Jiménez Delgado, José Miguel
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:18:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:18:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Jiménez Delgado J. M. Nonveridicality and the Use of οὐ and μή in Rhetorical Questions in Classical Greek. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 205–215. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.205
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48073
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the distribution of the ancient Greek negatives οὐ and
  μή in rhetorical questions, particularly in those which are equivalent to an assertive speech
  act. Traditionally, their use in this context has been described after the answer that usually
  follows the question without any further explanation: οὐ favours a positive answer, while μή
  favours a negative one. However, this rule does not always hold true. A theoretical framework
  that may explain their distribution is nonveridicality. Nonveridicality is applied to those operators
  that do not presuppose their proposition to be true or false. In fact, the use of μή with
  the indicative mood in this type of rhetorical question can be explained as characteristic of a
  nonveridical operator. Thus, μή is used in confirmative questions to signal that the proposition
  goes against the speaker’s expectations without implying its falsity. In turn, οὐ would be the
  general negative, so it can appear both in questions with reversed polarity and in confirmative
  questions whose proposition conforms to the speaker’s expectations. It must be noted that the
  study includes the use of οὐ and μή combined with other particles such as ἆρα, ἦ, or οὖν, since
  they exhibit the same properties in those cases.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This study has been finantially supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain within
  the research project “Actos de habla e interacción en griego antiguo” (ID: PID2021-122489NB-I00).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: οὐ
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: μή
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rhetorical questions
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: indirect speech acts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: polarity reversal
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nonveridicality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Nonveridicality and the Use of οὐ and μή in Rhetorical Questions in Classical Greek
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metadata.value: Article
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