Dexippos: The History of the Primitive Resources of the Greek Language (original) (raw)

Short of a Long Abstract The aim of the three volumes in the subject series is to unveil to the Greek public the primitive resources of the Greek language. This aim is adequately served with the publication of these three books. However, in order to better support my main subject I found myself obliged to research and determine the natural involuntary mechanism that is responsible for establishing the original audible reference. Actually this mechanism establishes any natural reference, optical, haptic, or other. This research work is dominated by the idea and thesis that natural languages are the developed product of the human brain. The process would have been initiated with empirical knowledge and proper mental capacities at the time of the emergence of the very first linguistic primitives of each particular language. Deductive syllogisms are exclusively used in the first volume (Anastasiou, 2015) to determine the presently unknown primitive ideas/semasies 1 /meanings out of which the classical Greek vocabulary was apparently built. In the early part of the second volume (Anastasiou, 2016), the mechanism and the nature of linguistic reference are determined by analytical observations. With the help of this knowledge, the later part of the same book describes the primitive sounds/phones that are physically coupled with the known ideas/semasias/meanings in discrete pairs of sounds-with-meaning. The last volume (Anastasiou, 2017) emphatically demonstrates the fact that the archaic designs of the Greek alphabetic elements represent, in a primitive manner, the outlines of objects that created meaningful mental representations, i.e., the ideas/semasies/meanings determined in the first volume. This clearly suggests that the Greeks had conscious command of the various and diverse local designs of the alphabetic elements as recorded by Lilian Jeffery (1961) in their striking diversity. The interest in the emergence of the first language (but also of the emergence of any language) has been great since the times of ancient Egypt and Herodotus. In the last five decades, this subject preoccupied too many scientists from all branches of science, but without visible or tangible results. This event illustrates an inability on the part of the methods used and a scientific void on this subject. If this is combined with the stagnation of the Indo-European hypothesis about the existence of Indo-European people and language, then, after 200 years of uninterrupted research, the additional void seems to demand a reconsideration of some research policies and methods used. The present work fills the scientific gaps and introduces semasiology as an effective method for determining the primitive resources of, at least, the Greek language. Volume A'. The first four chapters consist of the somewhat longer than usual introduction because of my intention to examine the subject under several angles of view. The Dexippos Hypothesis in Chapter 5 is central and dominant over the entire work in the three volumes. 2 It predicts that: Any new semasia (meaning) in Greek is perceived and conceived as the logical conjunction of two earlier perceived and conceived semasies (meanings). 1 Semasia the Greek root of semasiology. Plural semasies. 2 Dexippos and his mate Helen are imaginary persons invented for representing a long cultural period starting with their primitive speechless and voiceless society and ending when tri-literal vocal expressions became standard vocal expressions.