Eleanor Dickey

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eleanor Dickey is involved.

Journal

Historiographia Linguistica

International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences

Edited by Jean-Michel Fortis and Otto Zwartjes

ISSN 0302-5160 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9781

Articles (4) | Order by:

Dickey, Eleanor 2024 Review of Gómez & Berger (): Politeness in Ancient Greek and Latin Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 499–503 | Review

Dickey, Eleanor 2022 Review of Van Rooy, Van Hecke & Van Hal (2022): Trilingual Learning: The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000–1700) Historiographia Linguistica 49:2/3, pp. 380–384 | Review

Dickey, Eleanor 2019 When please ceases to be polite: The use of sis in early Latin Exploring (im)politeness in ancient languages, Ridealgh, Kim (ed.), pp. 204–224 | Article

Latin sis, contracted from si uis (‘if you wish’) and commonly attached to imperatives in early Latin, is usually translated as ‘please’, but some scholars have seen it as urgent rather than polite. Here, an examination of all the examples of sis in early Latin (chiefly Plautus and Terence)… read more

Dickey, Eleanor 2014 Jean Lallot, Études sur la grammaire alexandrine Historiographia Linguistica 41:1, pp. 153–157 | Review