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Transitivity, Ecology, and the Emergence of Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek

“…τετράφαται). As noted by Chantraine (1991Chantraine ( [1945:306), however, in fifth-century Attic Greek these alternative desinences (i.e. -αται, -ατο) fell into disuse, and periphrastic εἰµί with perfect participle was adopted as an alternative formation (in other words, it was drawn into the inflectional system).…”