The Greek verb : morphology, syntax, and semantics : proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Agrigento, October 1-3, 2009 / edited by Annamaria Bartolotta.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bartolotta, Annamaria.

Conference Name:

International Meeting on Greek Linguistics (8th : 2009 : Agrigento, Italy)

Series:

Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain ; 128.

Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain. Antiquité

Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'institut de linguistique de Louvain, 0779-1666 ; 128. Antiquité

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Verb--Congresses.

Greek language.

Greek language--Verb.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, 2014.

Language Note:

Contains 19 articles in English.

Summary:

"Despite the difficulties of reconstructing the grammar of a dead language, studying Ancient Greek offers new insights for linguistic theory. The morphological complexity of the Greek verb with its highly intricate inflectional system provide a valuable basis for an in-depth-analysis of the mechanisms which regulate the functioning of a language. Studies on the Ancient Greek verb have also contributed significantly to the reconstruction of the Indo-European language since the early history of Linguistics in the nineteenth century. The conservative features preserved in the oldest stages of Greek allow us to rely on a solid basis to which every linguist must refer in investigating a model of the Proto-Indo-European verb. The present volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics (GL8) held in Agrigento in October 2009, hosted by the University of Palermo, Italy. The conference was part of a series of biennial international meetings on Ancient Greek Linguistics organized in Italy since 1993. It was entitled ‘The Greek Verb: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics’ and was aimed at discussing trending issues on the Ancient Greek verbal system from a perspective both synchronic and diachronic.

The contributions of this book analyze phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomena from various areas of grammar pertaining to the verb, using a large corpus which ranges mostly from Homeric to Classical Greek. There is diversity in the topics covered, but the approach which unifies the volume is that of challenging traditional divisions and rigid boundaries between different levels of analysis, focusing on fundamental issues in theoretically-based linguistics from a broad perspective: morphosyntactic and syntactic variation, phonological, morphological, semantic and pragmatic aspects of grammatical phenomena. The papers also adopt different theoretical frameworks, both synchronic and diachronic, and develop diverse approaches varying from the cognitive (prototype theory), and the formal (Distributed Morphology), to the pragmatic-functional, and the historical-comparative. This volume provides a current overview of some work on Ancient Greek Linguistics, setting forth interesting topics for further research and drawing more attention to the contribution which historical linguistics and the study of dead languages can give to the improvement and growth of linguistic theories, toward a deeper comprehension of the language system."-- Pub;isher's website.

Contents:

Perception verbs and 'reputation' in Ancient Greek / Marina Benedetti

On tmesis, word order, and noun incorporation in Homeric Greek / Nicolas Bertrand

The grammarized suggestion of proximity of distance: aspect in Ancient Greek / Ronald Blankenborg

Echō-perfects in Greek : a diachronic view / Carla Bruno

Compound verbs' meaning in Homer: the case for ana/epi/(yhper) / Cinzia Citraro

A rule for the choice of aorist and imperfect /Emilio Crespo

Ancient Greek verbs ending in -ssō : a case of paradigm reorganization? Alessandro De Angelis

The Greek imperative mood: analysis of the aspectual values of the tenses / Sara Eco Conti

The Oblique Optative, a case of narrative tense : the example of the Future Optative / Richard Faure

From Aktionsart to aspect and voice: on the morphosyntax of the Greek aorists with -ē- and -thē- / Jose Luis Garcia Ramon

Notes on the transivity of the aorist and the perfect in Classical Greek / Jerneja Kavčič

The Greek imperative between comparison and sociolinguistics / Romano Lazzeroni

Homeric k-aorists and/or k-perfects? / Lucio Melazzo

Some thoughts about 'delocutive' verbs in Greek: functions and semantics / Paolo Poccetti

Verb-particle constructions and preverbs in Homeric Greek between telicization, incorporation and valency change / Anna Pompei

A distributed morphology analysis of tense and aspect in Greek / Sylvia Reed

Some verbs prefixed by peri- in Ancient Greek / Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers

Gr. ballō I throw', OIr. a-t:baill he/she dies'', Lat. ualleō 'to die' : some considerations on the reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *gwelh₁- 'to pass away, to die; to throw' / Mariona Vernet

Doric future in Attic prose / Mariarosaria Zinzi.

Ἔχω-perfects in Greek : a diachronic view / Carla Bruno

Compound verbs' meaning in Homer: the case for ἀνά/ἐπί/(ὑπέρ) / Cinzia Citraro

Ancient Greek verbs ending in -σσω : a case of paradigm reorganization? Alessandro De Angelis

From Aktionsart to aspect and voice: on the morphosyntax of the Greek aorists with -η- and -θη- / José Luis García Ramón

Homeric κ-aorists and/or κ-perfects? / Lucio Melazzo

Some verbs prefixed by περι- in Ancient Greek / Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers

Gr. βάλλω Ι throw', OIr. a-t:baill he/she dies'', Lat. ualleō 'to die' : some considerations on the reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *gwelh₁- 'to pass away, to die; to throw' / Mariona Vernet

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789042927223

9042927224

9782758401766

2758401762

OCLC:

870981130

Publisher Number:

90101765921