Nicolas Bertrand- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Université Côte d'Azur
Nicolas Bertrand
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Université Côte d'Azur
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Introduction
My research focuses on word order and information structure in ancient Greek especially in Homer and classical Greek, but recently Pindar as well.
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September 2017 - present
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences) Head of the Department of Classics (Département de Lettres classiques)
Education
September 2005 - November 2010
September 2001 - August 2005
Publications
Publications (17)
In classical Greek prose, adpositions are bona fide prepositions. However, in ancient Greek verse, they can be postponed to the first word of the adpositional phrase. Through a thorough study of the extant texts by lyric poet Pindar, I show that non-initial adpositions are really postpositive (i.e. surfacing in the so-called Wackernagel position in...
In ancient Greek, relative pronouns are, as a rule, subject to wh-movement and obligatorily surface at the left edge of the relative clause. However, the archaic poet Pindar sometimes allows material belonging to the relative clause to appear in front of the relative pronoun, which is then postponed within its clause. In this paper, I survey all re...
This article explores the problem of information structure in ancient Greek direct constituent questions from the perspective of wh‐placement. It begins with the observation that wh‐items are intrinsically focused and that typologically, wh‐placement is predictable based on the focusing properties in some languages, such as Indonesian (in situ stra...
The role of the adjective καλός in Homeric descriptions
This paper studies the uses of the runover adjective καλός, which is a means for the Homeric narrator to introduce many descriptions. I show that this use is not part of a formulaic system but indicates through traditional referentiality the special status of the object described. That object...
Some Homeric utterances contain both a demonstrative pronoun at the beginning and a coreferent NP at the end. In most cases, the pronoun is analyzed as a non–ratified topic expression and the NP as a ratified topic expression: the former is used to reestablish the referent as a topic of the new utterance, whereas the latter clarifies the identity o...
The Anaphoric Pronoun ὅγε in Homer An exhaustive analysis of the all the tokens of the demonstrative pronoun ὅ.
followed by the particle γε in Homer shows that we must recognize a true pronoun
ὅγε. Its function is to create an exclusive anaphora, i. e. to refer back to a referent evoked in the preceding discourse, excluding explicitly all other pos...
Dans ce travail, j’étudie les principes de l’ordre des mots en grec homérique. Dans un premier temps, qui occupe les cinq premiers chapitres, je m’attache à montrer que, comme en prose classique, le principe fondamental est que les constituants sont placés en fonction de la structure informationnelle (SI) de l’énoncé, c’est-à-dire de l’expression d...
À partir de la constatation que les formes intransitives du verbe ιστημι (en particulier στη et ε στη) sont surlocalisées au début de vers par rapport à leur forme métrique abstraite, cet article cherche à montrer que ce phénomène est lié à un emploi particulier de ces formes verbales en tant que σήμα narratif. Leurs occurrences correspondent en ef...
