The extension of the transitive construction in Ancient Greek

Luraghi, Silvia

doi:10.1080/03740463.2010.486919

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“…Again due to the rarity of the construction, we do not limit ourselves to a subpart of the Ancient Greek texts, as one would normally do in order to exclude texts of an extreme literary style. 4 Regarding the use of reconstructed examples for the active, the standard practice in the relevant literature is either to entirely omit the active examples (exactly because they are frequent, easy to find, and available to every grammar or dictionary of Ancient Greek-this is the practice employed by Luraghi (2003Luraghi ( , 2004Luraghi ( , 2010 and George (2005), among others), or to use reconstructed examples for the active (Feldman 1978:500 (exx. 4a,b, 5a, 6a, and even the ungrammatical reconstructed 7), Adams 1971 (exx.…”

Section: Middles and Passives In Ancient Greek Ancientmentioning

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Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case

Anagnostopoulou¹,

Sevdali²

2015

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This article presents and discusses evidence that genitive and dative objects regularly become nominative in Ancient Greek passives of monotransitives and ditransitives. This is a typologically and theoretically significant state of affairs for two reasons. (i) As is well known, nonaccusative objects are, in many languages, not allowed to enter into Case alternations, a fact that has been accounted for in the government-binding/principles-and-parameters literature on the basis of the assumption that nonaccusative objects-prototypically datives-bear inherent, lexical, or quirky Case. By this reasoning, Ancient Greek genitives and datives must be concluded to have structural Case. (ii) Even in languages where dative-nominative (DAT-NOM) alternations do obtain, they are often limited to ditransitives, a fact that can been taken to suggest that dative qualifies as structural Case only in ditransitives. A language like Ancient Greek, which allows genitive and dative objects to become nominative in all passives (monotransitives and ditransitives), shows that it is, in principle, possible to have a linguistic system where genitive and dative qualify as structural Cases in both monotransitives and ditransitives. Case theories must be designed in such a way as to allow for this option. We argue for an analysis of Case alternations that combines the view that alternating datives and genitives enter the formal operation Agree with a morphological case approach to the distribution of overt case morphology. We furthermore compare Ancient Greek DAT-NOM and genitive-nominative (GEN-NOM) alternations in passives to Icelandic DAT-NOM and GEN-NOM alternations in middles, pointing to a number of interesting differences in the two types of alternations that depend on (i) the types of nonaccusative arguments entering Agree, (ii) the verbal head (Voice or v) entering Agree with nonaccusative objects, and (iii) the rules of dependent case assignment in connection to the role of nominative in the two languages.*

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Section: Middles and Passives In Ancient Greek Ancientmentioning

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Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case

Anagnostopoulou¹,

Sevdali²

2015

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“…According to Luraghi (2010), ACC objects (whose semantic role is characterized as "theme") are "wholly affected patients, which undergo a change of state" (p. 64) and which canonically occur with the most highly transitive verbs. It is claimed that ACC case is nearly always assigned in such highly transitive contexts, and that GEN case is exceptionally assigned to objects having a partitive interpretation.…”

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“…While Luraghi provides a worthy point of entry into the topic, the analysis is weakened by certain methodological issues which the present research aims to correct. First, Luraghi (2003Luraghi ( /2010 presents an analysis of Ancient Greek (AG), a corpus spanning some 1200 years (encompassing the period from 900 BCE to 500 CE). Accordingly, the analysis utilizes data from all of Homeric Greek (~800 BCE), Classical Greek (~500-300 BCE), and Koine Greek (~300 BCE-400 CE), thereby trying to capture generalizations about varieties of Greek that are separated by many centuries, if not a millennium.…”

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Semantic and syntactic demarcations of Classical Greek object cases: An object(ive) study

2020

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In Classical Greek, many verbs take direct objects marked with genitive (GEN) or dative (DAT), rather than accusative (ACC) case. Traditional grammars (Smyth 1956, Boas et al. 2019) fail to offer principled descriptions or accounts of the distribution of ACC, GEN, DAT object case for transitive verbs. This paper analyzes a corpus involving case-assigning transitive verbs, and examines Luraghi’s 2010 Transitivity Hierarchy in this context. We find that, while her ranking of verbs’ transitivity is correct, the features used to determine the hierarchy are not. Our study demonstrates a highly significant correlation between a verb’s level of transitivity (as indicated by the case marking on its object) and the Proto-role Properties of Change of State and subject Volitionality (Dowty 1991).

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“…26 on morphological inflection and word order, according to this theoretical model). Luraghi (2010Luraghi ( , 2014, for instance, calls this change an "extension of the transitive construction" to describe how the accusative case becomes the basic case marking for objects of transitive verbs in Greek, actually in late Koiné Greek. 44 Koiné Greek is also analyzed as a transitional 45 stage in terms of parameters for word order (Taylor, 1994;Horrocks, 2010, p.…”

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Word order and closest-conjunct agreement in the Greek Septuagint: On the position of a biblical translation in the diachrony of a syntactic correlation

Lavidas

2019

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Clauses can show closest-conjunct agreement, where the verb agrees only with one conjunct of a conjoined subject, and not with the full conjoined subject. The aim of this study is to examine the properties of word order and closest-conjunct agreement in the Greek Septuagint to distinguish which of them are due to the native syntax of Koiné Greek, possibly influenced by contact with Hebrew, and which of them are the result of a biblical translation effect. Both VSO and closest-conjunct agreement in the case of postverbal subjects have been considered characteristics of Biblical Hebrew. VSO becomes a neutral word order for Koiné Greek, and Koiné Greek exhibits examples of closest-conjunct agreement as well. The present study shows that VSO is the neutral word order for various types of texts of Koiné Greek (biblical and non-biblical, translations and non-translations) and that closest-conjunct agreement is also present with similar characteristics in pre-Koiné Greek. All relevant characteristics reflect a type of a syntactic change in Greek related to the properties of the T domain, and evidenced not only in translations or Biblical Greek. However, the frequencies of word orders are indeed affected by the source language, and indirect translation effects are evident in the Greek Septuagint.

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The extension of the transitive construction in Ancient Greek

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case

Case alternations in Ancient Greek passives and the typology of Case

Semantic and syntactic demarcations of Classical Greek object cases: An object(ive) study

Word order and closest-conjunct agreement in the Greek Septuagint: On the position of a biblical translation in the diachrony of a syntactic correlation

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