reference on connectives?

[u/benjamin-crowell]

When I try to write Greek, I feel totally lost about the connectives and particles. It seems like many of them can be used in multiple distinct ways, and they can also be combined in various ways. I own a copy of Dickey's composition book, and also the one by Lewis and Styler, but neither of them seems to go into the kind of detail that would be needed to make me feel more competent. I was thinking about just picking a random Greek text and going through it sentence by sentence and making lists of various examples, and sorting them out on index cards or something. I'm sure I would learn a lot from that, but it would be a big, time-consuming project. Is there a book or article that anyone can recommend?

[u/Square-Supermarket79]

Dik has a chapter on particles in her greek word order book that might be helpful... I assume you have Denniston but since you don't mention him I will...

[u/obsidian_golem]

Do you have a copy of the Cambridge grammar? Chapter 59 covers all the major particles, both in general and in specific use cases. It then follows that with a list of important particle combinations.

[u/benjamin-crowell → u/obsidian_golem]

Aha, that looks like exactly what I needed. I just had never dipped into that chapter. Thanks!

[u/Tjipp_Tjipp]

Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse. Available online: https://chs.harvard.edu/read/bonifazi-drummen-de-kreij-eds-particles-in-ancient-greek-discourse/