Quale avere? Sulla sintassi di ἔχειν

Benedetti, Marina

doi:10.1515/9783110551754-503

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“…Besides the wellknown description by Rijksbaron (2002: 144-155), who classifies the different 'middle' constructions according to both semantic and syntactic criteria, middle constructions in Ancient Greek have been discussed both from a typological perspective (cf. Kulikov 2010Kulikov , 2013 and in language-internal description (cf., among others, Allan 2003;Benedetti 2005Benedetti , 2017Tronci 2005Tronci , 2011Tronci , 2014Tronci , 2018. From a syntactic point of view, the different types of middle constructions can be accounted for in terms of grammatical relations.…”

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“…They are interesting for our research, however, as they represent residual forms of an older stage of the language in which the voice system of the aorist was presumably similar to the binary system of the present (cf. Benedetti 2017; Tronci 2018 for further details). This unproductive binary system of voice coexisted together with the productive ternary system, although exhibited by a restricted number of lexical items.…”

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Voice Markers in Septuagint Greek in the Light of Hebrew Interference: A Corpus‐Based Study on the Aorist System of the Book of Genesis*

Dahl

Tronci

2023

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In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so-called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis-a-vis middle aorist forms. Here, we explore this feature of Septuagint Greek in some detail, showing that there is a more or less consistent, binary system at this stage, where the passive aorist is the preferred expression of monoargumental detransitive clauses, while the middle primarily appears in biargumental detransitive clauses. A comparison with the original text in Biblical Hebrew suggests that its binyanim system, with systematic distinction between transitive and detransitivising stems, may have played a key role in accelerating this process, which was already present in earlier stages of Greek. This process resulted in a general ousting of the aorist middle, which essentially became a lexically restricted variant of the active voice.

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