Nominal composition in Mycenaean Greek

Abstract

Nominal composition is an extremely productive means of word formation in Ancient Greek. Little has been written about it in English. Therefore, the present article gives a short introduction to nominal composition in this language in general before moving on to the earliest attested stage of the language, Mycenaean. An overview of nominal compounds of Mycenaean Greek is given and a classi®cation attempted. Thereafter, issues in their phonology and morphology are discussed and both the similarities with and dierences to later Greek established. It is concluded that Mycenaean, while preserving some archaic types, is already far advanced in the development of nominal composition typical for Greek.

[N. + N.] compounds in Medieval Greek : Constantine Manasses's Synopsis Chronike as a case study

“…πίτυς 'a pine-tree'). is compound is also attested in Consolation for John Kontostephanos; Description of a Crane Hunt 1 On Mycenean Greek compounds, see Waanders (2008), Meissner -Tribulato (2002).…”

Headedness in Word Formation and Lexical Semantics: Evidence from Italiot and Cypriot (University of Patras, 2014)

“…On the morphological status of the verbal element (e.g. imperative, third person singular) see,Andriotis (1939),Dunkel (1992,Meissner and Tribulato (2002).…”