Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of
means, and this work explores the language's development of
prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an
initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it turns to
this central question: under what conditions is the agent expressed
by a construction other than hupo with the genitive? The book
traces the development of these expressions from Homer through
classical prose and drama, paying attention to the semantic,
syntactic, and metrical conditions that favoured the use of one
preposition over another. It concludes with a study of the decline
of hupo as an agent marker in the first millennium AD. Although the
focus is on developments in Greek, translation of the examples
should render it accessible to linguists studying changes in
prepositional systems generally.
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