The syntax and semantics of the perfect active in literary Koine Greek / Robert Samuel David Crellin (University of Cambridge).
- Author:
- Crellin, Robert Samuel David
- Published:
- Chicester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2016
- Physical Description:
- iv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Philological Society (Great Britain)
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.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.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 inflection -- 4.2.4.Anticausative perfective with a root stem -- 4.2.5.Semantic distinction determining participation in the causative alternation -- 4.2.6.Conclusion -- 4.3.Labile transitivity in the perfect -- 4.3.1.Introduction -- 4.3.2.Causative/anticausative distinctions in the perfect -- 4.3.3.Re-expression of external cause argument by means of an adjunct phrase -- 4.3.4.Productivity of the specialised causative/anticausative perfect stems -- 4.3.5.Implications for the meaning of the perfect -- 4.4.Conclusion -- 5.The interaction of the perfect with different predicate types -- 5.1.Introduction: tense and aspect in a neo-Davidsonian framework -- 5.1.1.Approach -- 5.1.2.Aspectual Interface Hypothesis (AIH) -- 5.1.3.Situation aspect -- 5.1.4.Tense and aspect in a Government-Binding (GB) and neo- Davidsonian framework -- 5.1.5.Constructing the path of an event -- 5.1.6.Role of VAspP -- 5.1.7.Resultative and perfect in English -- 5.1.8.Outline of the present chapter -- 5.2.Homogeneous eventualities -- 5.2.1.Non-durative predicates -- 5.2.2.Durative predicates -- 5.2.3.Conclusion -- 5.3.Non-homogeneous non-COS eventualities -- 5.3.1.Introduction -- 5.3.2.Activity predicates -- 5.3.3.Accomplishment predicates -- 5.3.4.Conclusion -- 5.4.COS accomplishment predicates -- 5.4.1.Introduction -- 5.4.2.Unaccusative and anticausative predicates -- 5.4.3.Causative COS predicates -- 5.4.4.Unaccusativised activity predicates -- 5.4.5.Delimiting the poststate -- 5.5.COS achievement predicates -- 5.5.1.COS predicates -- 5.5.2.Causative COS predicates -- 5.6.Conclusion -- 6.The interaction of the perfect with COS predicates -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Extent predicates -- 6.2.1.COS and extent predicates -- 6.2.2.Achievements in a difference scale framework -- 6.2.3.Non-COS extent predicates -- 6.2.4.Disambiguation of extent and temporal readings -- 6.2.5.Viewpoint aspect and difference scales -- 6.2.6.Tense and extent predicates -- 6.2.7.The resultative construction -- 6.2.8.Extent predicates in Greek -- 6.2.9.Implications for the semantics of the perfect -- 6.3.Temporal versus extent readings of perfect predicates -- 6.3.1.Introduction -- 6.3.2.Prestate not logically present in time -- 6.3.3.Prestate logically present in time -- 6.3.4.Metaphorical extension of extent predicates to non-distance scales -- 6.4.Suppression of the internal argument in non-causative COS predicates -- 6.5.Suppression of the external argument -- 6.6.A Special Case -- 6.7.Conclusion -- 7.Deriving homogeneous atelic eventualities from states and non-states -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Deriving a homogeneous atelic eventuality by negation -- 7.3.Telic state predicates -- 7.4.Activity predicates -- 7.5.Non-COS accomplishment predicates -- 7.6.Causative COS predicates -- 7.7.Deriving states from states: the perfect of atelic state predicates -- 7.7.1.Introduction -- 7.7.2.Pure state predicates -- 7.7.3.Continued state predicates -- 7.7.4.COS predicates -- 7.8.Obligatory anteriority in derived states -- 7.9.Semantic contribution of the Greek perfect -- 7.10.Tense and the time adverbial problem -- 7.11.Noise predicates -- 7.12.Conclusion.
- Summary:
- "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; Primarily for linguists, academics, and researchers specializing in Koine Greek; also for scholars of New Testament Greek linguistics, Classical Greek linguistics, and linguists working on Old Indo-European languages" --
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- ISBN:
- 9781119243540 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1119243548 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-268) and index.
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