Polysemous Particles in Ancient Greek

Anyone reading an Ancient Greek text will notice the abundance of pragmatic particles (e.g. ??a, ???, ?e, d?, d?, µ??, µ??, ???), a much-debated and challenging class of expressions. What are their semantic contributions, and how should we account for their notorious polyfunctionality? In this book, Kees Thijs provides a state of the art of modern particle theory, which he then applies to two of the most versatile Greek particles, µ?? and d?. Using a diachronically oriented polysemy approach and a large-scale, varied research corpus, Thijs offers a new, unified account that significantly improves on both traditional handbooks (e.g. Denniston) and more recent particle studies.