1. Ben Cartlidge Defining Classical Scholarship: The Research / Teaching Interface Classical Association Conference 2014 15/4/2014 Why compose? Greek Prose Composition and Functional Grammar 1. A. E. Housman, letter to Lucy Housman 21.10.1877: a paper on which was written in Latin, or what passes for Latin at Oxford (Burnett [2007] 1.19) 2. Interfaces: N. Vincent / L. Mycock (2010); Ramchand / Reiss (2007); J. G. Partridge / H. David (2010). 3. Linguistics and ancient languages: a. Generative grammar: Sommerstein (1973); Danckaert (2012). b. Sociolinguistics: Willi (2003); Cartlidge (forthcoming). c. Bilingualism, multilingualism: Adams (2003); Mullen / Patrick (2012). 4. Why is it that we are all so often appalled by our pupils extraordinary readiness to render Latin into hopeless gibberish? I believe the real reason is that they have not been convinced that Latin is a language that was spoken by a very sane race... Latin was a language written by lunatics for lunatics. (Trayes [1934] 156) Ils sont fous, les Romains. (Asterix apud Wllfing [1983/4] 148) 5. Etymology: Miller (2006); Bachvarova (2007); Sadler (1970); with modifications, Zuntz (1973-4). 6. Reading: Hutchinson (1944); A. N. Bryan-Brown et al. (1964) xl a test of knowledge gained by ... reading; Kynaston (1884) v as long as the works of the Greek Tragedians live, we must hope that some desire will survive of becoming familiar with the language in which they wrote; French (1961) 80 composition should be regarded as a perhaps unavoidable preliminary to wide reading. 7. Rijksbaron (1973): (1) . (2) . 8. amare, homini, Romam to ...; ~ ~ causal participle ~ (etc.) 9. Functional Grammar (FG): Siewierska (1991). Greek applications: Rijksbaron (1973), (3 2002); Wakker (1994); H. Dik (2007). 10. Teaching => research: vs. % % Tragedy (A., S., E.) x 8 66.6 x 4 33.3 Aristophanes x 11 28 x 28 72 Plato x 657 97 x 20 3 Lysias x 34 22 x 123 78 Isocrates x 145 40 x 218 60 Demosthenes x 267 61 x 172 39 Dinarchus x 13 21 x 50 79 Menander x 79 95 x 4 5

2. Ben Cartlidge Defining Classical Scholarship: The Research / Teaching Interface Classical Association Conference 2014 15/4/2014 11. Research => teaching? Conditionals, a failed experiment Conditionals open, real closed, remote past / present + indicative, (then) indicative + indicative, (then) indicative + future + subjunctive, (then) future indicative vivid variant: + future indicative + optative, (then) optative + (1) neutral conditionals with indicatives, of any tense; present tenses occasionally sceptical; future tenses often threatening / warning (2) counterfactual conditionals present / past, referring to an impossible state-of-affairs (3) prospective conditionals + subjunctive in the protasis; referring to a conditional which is likely (neither certain or impossible) to be fulfilled. (4) potential conditionals referring to an impossible state-of-affairs, therefore using the optative in both clauses. 12. Systemic Functional Grammar: M. A. K. Halliday => Jones (2011). References J. N. Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language (2003) M. Bachvarova, Actions and attitudes: understanding Greek (and Latin) verbal paradigms, Classical World, 100/2 (2007) 123-132 A. N. Bryan-Brown et al. More Oxford Compositions (1964) A. Burnett, The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007) B. J. Cartlidge, The Language of Menander (Diss. Oxon., forthcoming) L. Danckaert, Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery (2012) H. Dik, Greek Tragic Word-Order (2007) A. French, Composition in a Classics course, GR 8/1 (1961) 75-81 M. E. Hutchinson, Some recent research in the teaching of Latin, CJ 39/8 (1944) 449-465 R. H. Jones, Functional Grammar in the ESL Classroom (2011) H. Kynaston, Progressive Exercises in Composition of Greek Iambic Verse (2 1884) A. Mullen / J. Patrick, Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds (2012) J. G. Partridge / H. David, Interfaces in Language (2010) G. Ramchand / C. Reiss The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces (2007) A. Rijksbaron, Temporal and Causal Conjunctions in Ancient Greek (1973) A. Rijksbaron, The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek (3 2002) J. D. Sadler, Etymology and Latin teaching, Classical World 64/4 (1970) 117-120 A. Siewierska, Functional Grammar (1991) A. Sommerstein, The Sound-Pattern of Ancient Greek (1973) F. E. A. Trayes, Disiecta membra: being some thoughts on the teaching of Latin GR 3/9 (1934) 150-160 N. Vincent / L. Mycock (edd.), Special issue: the prosody-syntax connection TPhS 108/3 (2010) G. Wakker, Conditions and Conditionals (1994) A. J. Willi, The Languages of Aristophanes (2003) P. Wlfing, Latin reading texts for beginners CJ 79/2 (1983/4) 146-152 G. Zuntz, Linguistics and the teaching of Greek, Arion 1/2 (1973-4) 381-400 benjamin.cartlidge@trinity.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @benjcartlidge