Robert Crellin

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek

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Produktbeschreibung

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.
_ Offers a comprehensive and unified account of the Greek perfect that considers its behaviour in terms of tense and aspect, as well as voice (or diathesis)
_ Features insights from the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan semantic traditions while addressing the perfect tense in Koine Greek
_ Incorporates syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate
_ Utilizes a large corpus of material that has not been previously discussed in a linguistic sense relating to the question of the semantics of the Greek perfect

Produktdetails

• Publications of the Philological Society
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A119243540
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781119243540
• ISBN-10: 1119243548
• Artikelnr.: 44505255

Autorenporträt

Robert Crellin works for the Greek Lexicon Project, based in the Classics Faculty at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a former Lecturer in New Testament Greek at the Greek Bible College in Athens, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

1.1 Problem of the Greek perfect active

1.2 Existing frameworks for understanding the perfect

1.3 Existing frameworks for understanding the Greek perfect

1.4 Critical assessment of existing studies

1.5 Aims and approach

1.6 Corpus

1.7 Outline

2. The perfect and lexical aspect

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Events and the Greek perfect

2.1.2 The true domain of events

2.1.3 Aspect: semantic, pragmatic or morphological?

2.1.4 Viewpoint aspect, situation aspect and telicity

2.1.5 Tense and aspect in terms of Utterance Time and

Topic Time

2.1.6 Viewpoint aspect in Greek

2.1.7 Lexical aspectual categories: Aristotle, Kenny and Vendler

2.1.8 The domain of situation aspect: syntax or lexis?

2.1.9 Developing a lexical aspectual framework for Greek

2.2 Perfect of homogeneous verbs

2.2.1 Introduction

2.2.2 Non-durative state verbs

2.2.3 Durative state verbs

2.2.4 Terminative state verbs

2.2.5 Non-state homogeneous verbs

2.2.6 Conclusion

2.3 Non-durative terminative verbs (describing achievements)

2.4 Non-homogeneous durative verbs (describing activities

and accomplishments)

2.4.1 Introduction

2.4.2 Non-COS verbs

2.4.3 COS verbs

2.4.4 Verbs with two perfect active stems

2.4.5 Verbs alternating between COS and non-COS readings

without specialised stems

2.4.6 Conclusion

2.5 Noise verbs

2.6 Conclusion

3. Syntactic theoretical frameworks

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Neo-Davidsonian tradition

3.2.1 Event semantics in the Davidsonian tradition

3.2.2 Argument projection in a neo-Davidsonian framework

3.2.3 Semantic roles and grammatical relations

3.2.4 Determining the number of arguments

3.2.5 Formally representing semantic roles in a neo-Davidsonian

framework

3.2.6 Are states predicates of eventualities?

3.2.7 Theme hierarchies and thematic proto-roles

3.3 Government-Binding (GB) theory

3.3.1 Introduction

3.3.2 Unaccusativity hypothesis and (causative) change of state

3.3.3 X-bar theory

3.3.4 Status of the subject as a verbal argument

3.3.5 Subject of state sentences

3.3.6 Combining Davidsonian semantics with GB theory

3.4 Predicate types

3.4.1 Introduction

3.4.2 State predicates

3.4.3 Change of state and causative change of state

3.4.4 Change of state and change of location

3.4.5 Accomplishment predicates

3.4.6 Activity predicates

3.5 Voice alternations and the resultative

3.5.1 Passive voice

3.5.2 Resultative

3.5.3 The middle

3.6 Conclusion

4. The causative alternation

4.1 Introduction

4.1.1 Transitivity in traditional Greek grammar passive

4.1.2 The function and development of the Greek middle and passive

4.1.3 Voice and argument projection in Greek

4.1.4 Transitivity and the Greek perfect

4.2 Labile transitivity outside of the perfect

4.2.1 Introduction

4.2.2 Verbs fully participating in the causative alternation

4.2.3 Anticausative denoted by infl ection

4.2.4 Anticausative perfective with a root stem

4.2.5 Semantic distinction determining participation in the

causative alternation

4.2.6 Conclusio