Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-98554-114-0
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 922 g

Reihe: Phraseology and Multiword Expressions

This volume brings together corpora that span more than 3,000 years of the history of the Greek language, from Ittzés' chapter on the proto-language to Giouli's chapter on the modern language. The authors take wider or narrower approaches with regard to the form and functionof the type of construction that they include in the group of support-verb constructions: while all would agree that English to take initiative is a support-verb construction, opinions differ on English to take wing. The chapters reflect a fascinating diversity of approaches to support-verb constructions, including Natural Language Processing, Comparative Philology, New Testament Exegesis, Coptology, and General Linguistics. The volume is structured along the three interfaces that support-verb constructions sit on, the syntax-lexicon, the syntax-semantics, and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces. We finish with four concrete avenues for further research. Faced with the diversity of approaches and the magnitude of disagreements arising from them when working with as internally diverse a group of constructions as support-verb constructions, we strive for in varietate unitas.

Zielgruppe

WIssenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fendel, Victoria Beatrix

Über Autor(innen)

Fendel, Victoria Beatrix
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 (Brill, 2025) in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources