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Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds - Their Diachronic Development Within the Greek Compound System (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds - Their Diachronic Development Within the Greek Compound System (Hardcover, Digital original)
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This book provides a brand new treatment of Ancient Greek (AG)
verb-first (V1) compounds. In AG, the very existence of this type
is surprising: its left-oriented structure goes against the
right-oriented structure of the compound system, in which there
also exists a large class of verb-final (V2) compounds (many of
which express the same agentive semantics). While past studies have
privileged either the historical dimension or the assessment of
semantic and stylistic issues over a systematic analysis of V1
compounds, this book provides a comprehensive corpus of appellative
and onomastic forms, which are studied vis-a-vis V2 ones. The
diachronic dimension (how these compounds developed from late PIE
to AG and then within AG) is combined with the synchronic one (how
they are used in specific contexts) in order to show that, far from
being anomalous, V1 compounds fill lexical gaps that could not, for
specified morphological and semantic reasons, be filled by more
'regular' V2 ones. Introductory chapters on compounding in
morphological theory and in AG place the multi-faceted approach of
this book in a modern perspective, highlighting the importance of
AG for linguists debating the properties of the V1 type
cross-linguistically.
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