ASPECTS OF NEGATION jN CLASSICAL GREEK by

Traditional grammars are criticized as having obscured or omitted many significant features of negation patterns in Classical Greek..The author demonstrates that negatiot, in Greek extensively involves semantic and syntactic factors.. Certain of the _factors are thoroughly embedded in the traditional approach to grammar, while others are derived from concepts totally unfamiliar to philology. The need for a, complete and total description of_negative patterns is called for, and it is suggested that the description syntax, and an in depth dilcussion of inherently negative verbs into two classes on the basis of the behavior of the negative in their complements (R1