Giving Gifts and Doing Favours

Literary Classical Attic Greek Support-Verb Constructions
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73051-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

Support-verb constructions, like 'to make a suggestion' and 'to take heart',are an integral, enriching, and natural part of the classical Greek lexicon-grammar rather than stylistic, register-related, or redundant as often claimed, yet they remain a pain in the neck even 20 years after Sag's seminal article.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fendel, Victoria Beatrix

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria B. Fendel (D.Phil. Oxford, 2018) is a research associate at the University of Oxford, one of the editors of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME initiative. Her research focusses on language contact (Oxford University Press, 2022) and multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources.