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, 658 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1246 g

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

List of Figures

Abbreviations

1 Support-verb constructions: Past, present, and future 1.1 Support-verb constructions 1.2 The past: Research review 1.3 Perspectives: Four controversies 1.4 The present: Aims and objectives 1.5 The future: Overview of chapters

2 Methodology: Definition, data, identification, and discovery 2.1 Corpus of Texts and Test Sample 2.2 Definition 2.3 The Ninox database 2.4 Analysis tools

3 Lexicon: Identification and discovery of support-verb-construction families 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Analysis 3.3 Summary and conclusion

4 Morphosyntax: Internal and external agreement with objects and negatives 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Analysis 4.3 Summary and conclusion

5 Semantics: Lexical words or grammatical syntagms with passives and inanimate subjects 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Analysis 5.3 Summary and conclusion

6 Discourse-pragmatics: Cohesion and coherence in relativisation and anaphora contexts 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Analysis 6.3 Summary and conclusion

7 Summary and Conclusion: A Framework for Support-Verb Constructions in Literary Classical Attic 7.1 Summary: Support-verb constructions as an enrichment of the lexicon-grammar 7.2 Conclusion I: Context and Co-text 7.3 Conclusion II: Base-verb constructions, lexical gaps, and markedness 7.4 Conclusion III: A framework of support-verb constructions 7.5 Outlook: Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek

Appendix 1: Identification of support-verb constructions

Appendix 2: Discovery of support-verb constructions

Bibliography

Index of passages discussed

Subject index

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.