The Ancient Greek particle atar has been described as a connective device that encodes either an adversative or a progressive relation between sentences. The purpose of this paper is to revise the description of this particle by framing its analysis within a consistent and theoretically up-to-date model of clause linkage and discourse structure. Starting from previous findings on the function of atar in Homer, I undertake a corpus analysis of atar in Euripides and Aristophanes. This analysis reveals differences in usage at different stages of the language that have been previously neglected. Whereas in Homer, atar largely behaves as a connective and encodes a semantic relation of oppositive contrast between sentences, in later texts it rather behaves as a discourse marker and contributes to the management of both thematic continuity and interactional practices. These differences point to a specific diachronic path of grammaticalization that accounts for the changes undergone by atar .

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古希腊语中的连接词和话语标记

古希腊粒子 atar 被描述为一种连接装置，用于编码句子之间的对立或渐进关系。本文的目的是通过在一致且理论上最新的从句链接和话语结构模型中构建其分析来修改对这个粒子的描述。以荷马史诗中 atar 功能的先前发现为出发点，我对欧里庇得斯和阿里斯托芬中的 atar 进行了语料库分析。这种分析揭示了以前被忽视的语言不同阶段的使用差异。而在荷马中，atar 主要表现为连接词，并编码句子之间对立对比的语义关系，在后来的文本中，它更像是一种话语标记，有助于管理主题连续性和互动实践。这些差异指向一个特定的语法化历时路径，该路径解释了 atar 所经历的变化。