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The Greek verb

Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics

Proceedings of the 8th International

Meeting on Greek Linguistics
Agrigento
October 1-3, 2009

edited by

Annamaria BARTOLOTTA

PEETERS
LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE WALPOLE, MA
2014
 CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V

Perception verbs and reputation in Ancient Greek . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Marina Benedetti

On tmesis, word order, and noun incorporation in Homeric Greek . . . 11

Nicolas Bertrand

The grammarized suggestion of proximity of distance: aspect in Ancient

Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Ronald Blankenborg

Exw-perfects in Greek: a diachronic view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Carla Bruno

Compound verbs meaning in Homer: the case for n/p/(pr) . . . 53

Cinzia Citraro

A rule for the choice of aorist and imperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Emilio Crespo

Ancient Greek verbs ending in -ssw: a case of paradigm reorganization?. . 83

Alessandro De Angelis

The Greek imperative mood: analysis of the aspectual values of the

tenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Sara Eco Conti

The Oblique Optative, a case of narrative tense

The example of the Future Optative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Richard Faure

From Aktionsart to aspect and voice: on the morphosyntax of the Greek

aorists with -j- and -qj-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Jos Luis Garca Ramn
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Notes on the transivity of the aorist and the perfect in Classical Greek . . . 183
Jerneja Kavcic

The Greek imperative between comparison and sociolinguistics . . . . . 201

Romano Lazzeroni

Homeric k-aorists and/or k-perfects? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Lucio Melazzo

Some thoughts about delocutive' verbs in Greek: functions and semantics. 227
Paolo Poccetti

Verb-particle constructions and preverbs in Homeric Greek between

telicization, incorporation and valency change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Anna Pompei

A Distributed Morphology analysis of tense and aspect in Greek . . . 277

Sylvia Reed

Some verbs prefixed by peri- in Ancient Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers

Gr. bllwI throw', OIr. a-t:baill he/she dies', Lat. ualleo to die':
some considerations on the reconstruction of the PIE verbal root *gwelh1-
to pass away, to die; to throw' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Mariona Vernet

Doric future in Attic prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Mariarosaria Zinzi

Word Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Index Locorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
 INTRODUCTION
Annamaria BARTOLOTTA
Universit di Palermo

The present volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International
Meeting on Greek Linguistics (GL8) held in Agrigento in October 2009, hosted
by the University of Palermo, Italy. The conference was part of a series of biennial
international meetings on Ancient Greek Linguistics organized in Italy since 1993.
The 8th conference, organized by Professor Lucio Melazzo and the editor
of the present volume, was entitled The Greek Verb: Morphology, Syntax,
Semantics and was aimed at discussing trending issues on the Ancient Greek
verbal system, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
Despite the difficulties of reconstructing the grammar of a dead language,
studying Ancient Greek offers new insights for linguistic theory. Thanks also
to the amount of available written data of a large corpus at our disposal, it
is possible for a linguist to test hypotheses from modern theories in order to
explain language phenomena, without disregarding a description according to
methodologies adopted in traditional analyses of ancient languages. In particu-
lar, the morphological complexity of the Greek verb with its highly intricate
inflectional system provide a valuable basis for an in-depth-analysis of the
mechanisms which regulate the functioning of a language in the mind of the
speaker. Crucially, in recent times also deductive methodologies adopted in the
generative framework have been successfully applied with this purpose to the
study of ancient languages (see, among others, Kiss 2005).
On the other hand, and as is well known to historical linguists and Indo-
Europeanists, studies on the Ancient Greek verb have contributed significantly
to the reconstruction of the Indo-European language since the early history of
Linguistics in the ninetheenth-century. The conservative features preserved in
the oldest stages of Greek allow us to rely on a solid basis to which every
linguist in investigating a model of the Proto-Indo-European verb must refer
(see more recently Haverling 2010: 287).
The contributions of this volume analyze phonological, morphological, syntac-
tic and semantic phenomena from various areas of grammar pertaining to the verb,
using a large corpus which ranges mostly from Homeric to Classical Greek. As
will become clear in the book, there is diversity in the topics covered, but the
approach which unifies the volume is that of challenging traditional divisions