Non-initial adpositions in Pindar
Résumé
Adpositions in Ancient Greek prose come first in the adpositional phrase. However, in verse, they can surface further right in their phrase.
A careful examination of those non-initial adpositions proves that their position is not a result of syntactic movement. Rather, they inherited the ability to be treated as postpositive words (cliticizing to the first accented word of their phrase, in the so-called Wackernagel position). But the reluctance to put them in the last position of the phrase is problematic by that account. A new method of assessing the strength of word breaks in lyric verse shows that non-initial adpositions, while being second in their phrase, still cliticize to their right, as prepositions do.
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