Eirik Welo

• Kraggerud, Egil & Welo, Eirik (2020). In the Wake of a Great Edition: Textual Notes on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. p. 1–8. doi: 10.1080/00397679.2020.1735734.
• Kraggerud, Egil & Welo, Eirik (2019). Textual Notes On Sophocles, Ajax. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. doi: 10.1080/00397679.2019.1582748.
• Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew; Eckhoff, Hanne Martine & Welo, Eirik (2014). The theoretical foundations of givenness annotation. In Bech, Kristin & Eide, Kristine Gunn (Ed.), Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027255969. p. 17–52. doi: 10.1075/la.213.02hau.
• Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew; Eckhoff, Hanne Martine; Majer, Marek & Welo, Eirik (2009). Breaking down and putting back together: analysis and synthesis of New Testament Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics. ISSN 1566-5844. 9(1), p. 56–92.
• Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew; Jøhndal, Marius; Eckhoff, Hanne Martine; Welo, Eirik; Hertzenberg, Mari Johanne Bordal & Müth, Angelika (2009). Computational and Linguistic Issues in Designing a Syntactically Annotated Parallel Corpus of Indo-European Languages. Revue TAL. ISSN 1248-9433. 50.
• Haug, Dag & Welo, Eirik (2001). The Proto-Hexameter Hypothesis: Perspectives for Further Research. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. 76, p. 130–136. Show summary

  Nils Berg's hypothesis of a proto-hexameter, being the combination of a glyconic and a pherecratean with variants, gives new perspectives for further research on the Homeric language. This paper discusses the metrical aspects of the proto-hexameter hypothesis, shows its explanatory force in questions concerning Homer's artificial forms, and points out areas where further study is needed.

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• Kraggerud, Egil & Welo, Eirik (2006). Mennesket – det minste og det største. Utvalgte foredrag fra Humanistisk Kollegium. Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur. ISBN 978-82-990518-4-2. 326 p.
• Haug, Dag & Welo, Eirik (2005). Haptacahaptaitis � Festschrift for Fridrik Thordarson on the occasion of his 77th birthday. Novus Forlag. ISBN 82-7099-403-0. 346 p.

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• Maravela, Anastasia & Welo, Eirik (2020). Når kroppen hviler, er hjernen våken: Drømmer i antikken .
• Kraggerud, Egil & Welo, Eirik (2018). Textual Notes on Sophocles, Ajax. Symbolae Osloenses. ISSN 0039-7679. doi: 10.1080/00397679.2019.1582748.
• Welo, Eirik (2009). Contrast and word order in Ancient Greek.
• Welo, Eirik (2009). Looking out for number one: Greek word order.
• Welo, Eirik (2009). The pragmatics of sentence-initial verbs in NT Greek.
• Eckhoff, Hanne Martine; Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew & Welo, Eirik (2009). "Representing Information Structure in Corpora of Ancient Languages".
• Berge, Robert Emil & Welo, Eirik (2015). From Words to Action: Ambiguity of Speakers and Stage Action in Aristophanes' Comedies. Universitetet i Oslo.
• Welo, Eirik (2008). The information structure of hyperbaton – a case study of Galen’s commentary on Prognosticum. Unipub forlag. ISSN 0806-3222. Show summary

  This thesis tackles the question of syntactic sentence structure and word order in Ancient Greek. More specifically, if focuses on the use of split phrases (hyperbaton) in a medical text by the physician and medical writer Galen (ca. 129-ca.216 AD). The functions of various types of split phrases are investigated in order to establish the full range of uses of this phenomenon. The fact that the Ancient Greek language allows words which cohere tightly with each other to be split by other words within a sentence has been a topic of great interest to linguists, not least because splitting corresponding phrases in e.g. Norwegian or English renders the sentence completely ungrammatical. The survey of the various functions of split phrases in Galen's medical text shows that they are primarily used in order to signal the information status of the component parts of the phrase. The functions detected in the text are integrated into a general theory of information structure. Thus, it emerges that word order variations correspond closely to intonational variations in e.g. Norwegian. The thesis confirms that the use of split phrases still fulfills a specific function in the language of Galen. This is an important find which may have repercussions for the study of other texts from the same period. While it has been suspected for a long time that word order and information structure were closely connected in Ancient Greek, this thesis is among the few that aim to take the implications of this connection for the question of the syntactic structure of Greek seriously. Several approaches to Greek syntax are discussed and it is concluded that there is basically no need to assume a hierarchical syntactic structure similar to the one generally assumed for English. As far as the theory of Universal Grammar is concerned, this implies that hierarchical sentence structure should be argued for rather than assumed from the beginning. The findings of the thesis extend our knowledge of the word order preferences in post-classical Greek and may be of use for comparisons between classical and post-classical Greek. The thesis also aims to take part in the general linguistic discussion by arguing that order may exist without structure.

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