Ancient Greek Verb-Initial Compounds : : Their Diachronic Development Within the Greek Compound System / / Olga Tribulato.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Tribulato, Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)

This book provides a brand new treatment of Ancient Greek (AG) verb-first (V1) compounds. In AG, the very existence of this type is surprising: its left-oriented structure goes against the right-oriented structure of the compound system, in which there also exists a large class of verb-final (V2) co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Compounding and the Classification of Compounds
• Chapter Two. The Compound Categories of Ancient Greek
• Chapter Three. The Study of Ancient Greek and Indo-European V1 Compounds in the Last Two Centuries
• Chapter Four. The Historical Perspective: PIE Background and Development of V1 Compounds in Early Greek
• Chapter Five. The Analysis of V1 Compounds Within the Greek Compound System. Part I: V1 Compounds Without V2 Counterparts
• Chapter Six. The Analysis of V1 Compounds Within the Greek Compound System. Part II: V1 Compounds With a V2 Counterpart
• Conclusion. V1 Formations and the system of verbal compounds in Ancient Greek Conclusion
• Appendix. Corpus of V1 Compounds, Their Base Verbs, First Constituents, Corresponding Agent Nouns and V2 Compounds
• Bibliography
• Index