Tmesis of Adverbs in early Epic poetry // Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология XXVII (чтения памяти И. М. Тронского). Материалы Международной конференции, проходившей 26–28 июня 2023 г. / Гл. редактор Н. Н. Казанский. СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2023. С. 507-519.
The article studies a group of prefixed adverbs that appear in tmesis inarchaic epic poetry: διαμπερές “right through, piercing through”, διάνδιχα
“in two, in half, in twain”, and ἐξονομακλήδην “b name, calling b
name”. While adverbial tmesis is mentioned in grammars of ancient Greek
and in works on tmesis in early poetry, the examples have not been treated
in detail. In this article the tmetic usages of adverbs in Homer and Hesiod
are studied one by one, and compared to non-tmetic usages of the same
adverb. It is shown that adverbial tmesis is limited to a single syntactic
construction with the adverb occupying the initial position in the phrase in
a complex paratactic sentence, its preverb separated by the particle δέ, and
that the motive for the tmesis of the adverb is primarily stylistic (emphasis,
σχῆμα ἀπὸ κοινοῦ).