Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: A typological insight

Imbert, Caroline

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“…Data from Homeric Greek, which allowed for up to three spatial preverbs in a row, can only serve as partial support for (15). Imbert (2010) provides the following preverb-order constraints for Homeric Greek (Table 7). (Tuite 1997;Rostovtsev-Popiel 2016).…”

Section: Beyond the Caucasus: Grammaticalized Elevation Worldwidementioning

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Elevation as a category of grammar: Sanzhi Dargwa and beyond

Forker¹

2019

Linguistic Typology

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Nakh-Daghestanian languages have encountered growing interest from typologists and linguists from other subdiscplines, and more and more languages from the Nakh-Daghestanian language family are being studied. This paper provides a grammatical overview of the hitherto undescribed Sanzhi Dargwa language, followed by a detailed analysis of the grammaticalized expression of spatial elevation in Sanzhi. Spatial elevation, a topic that has not received substantial attention in Caucasian linguistics, manifests itself across different parts of speech in Sanzhi Dargwa and related languages. In Sanzhi, elevation is a deictic category in partial opposition with participant-oriented deixis/horizontally-oriented directional deixis. This paper treats the spatial uses of demonstratives, spatial preverbs and spatial cases that express elevation as well as the semantic extension of this spatial category into other, non-spatial domains. It further compares the Sanzhi data to other Caucasian and non-Caucasian languages and makes suggestions for investigating elevation as a subcategory within a broader category of topographical deixis.

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Section: Beyond the Caucasus: Grammaticalized Elevation Worldwidementioning

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Elevation as a category of grammar: Sanzhi Dargwa and beyond

Forker¹

2019

Linguistic Typology

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“…For an example, see Bozzone 2012 on the pie subjunctive. they were for Ancient Greek.34 The same goes for serial verb constructions, which were described for languages of Africa and Papua New Guinea long before they were suspected to have existed in pie.35 Similarly, relational preverbs were first described for Native American languages (Craig and Hale 1988), and only much more recently for Homeric Greek (Imbert 2010). In all of these cases, while the data in the various old ie languages was not hidden, typological comparison provided helpful context and analytical insight.…”

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The Origin of the Caland System and the Typology of Adjectives

Bozzone

2016

Indo Eur Linguist

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This paper argues that the Caland system rests on a Pre-PIE verb-like adjective class, which formed root aorists. The Caland system as we know it came to be when PIE shifted to having a noun-like adjective class, and the Caland roots had to be adapted to the new system via derivation (while the old root aorists were gradually lost). Evidence for root aorists to Caland roots in Vedic is reviewed, and a typologically informed scenario for the shift is proposed. Finally, the paper argues that this scenario clarifies the origin of the *-eh1- stative in Indo-European (following Jasanoff (2002–2003)’s account), which would have arisen as PIE shifted from verb-like adjectives to nominal adjectives, and came to have a switch adjective system based on aspect.

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“…El perro [Figure] entró [Motion+Path] en [(Path)] el jardí n [Ground] corriendo [Manner] "The dog ran into the garden"). On the contrary, Homeric Greek is a S-Framed language (see Talmy 2000;Baldi 2006;Skopeteas 2008;Imbert 2010;Nikitina 2013;Verkerk 2014), as it tends to convey Path in a so-called satellite, i.e. particles functioning as both preverbs and prepositions (e.g.…”

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Homeric Evidences of an Inherently Actional Opposition: ἔρχομαι vs ἦλθον

Nigrelli

2020

IJL

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The paper aims at analyzing the paradigmatic relationship between the verbs ἔρχομαι and ἦλθον in Homeric Greek. Both verbs convey the idea of going within a Homeric suppletive paradigm. Although suppletivism between ἔρχομαι, εἶμι, ἐλεύσομαι (future), ἦλθον (aorist), εἰλήλουθα (perfect) is generally accepted, there is still uncertainty on both etymology and semantic features involving inherent actionality, with particular reference to ἔρχομαι. Therefore, the actional status of ἔρχομαι and its relationship with ἦλθον need further investigation. A textual analysis of the Homeric occurrences of both ἔρχομαι and ἦλθον, focusing on the semantic-syntactic discourse context, has shed light on their mutual suppletive relationship and proved that it is ultimately based on their inherently actional opposition within the paradigm.

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Multiple preverbation in Homeric Greek: A typological insight

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Elevation as a category of grammar: Sanzhi Dargwa and beyond

Elevation as a category of grammar: Sanzhi Dargwa and beyond

The Origin of the Caland System and the Typology of Adjectives

Homeric Evidences of an Inherently Actional Opposition: ἔρχομαι vs ἦλθον

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