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Studies in the syntax and semantics of the reduplicated presents in Homeric Greek and Indo-European

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TLpq303983274

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Studies in the syntax and semantics of the reduplicated presents in Homeric Greek and Indo-European

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[Thesis]

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G. Giannakis

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

R. Anttila

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University of California, Los Angeles

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1992

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390

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Ph.D.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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1992

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This study concerns itself with the syntactic and semantic behavior of the reduplicated presents primarily of Homeric Greek, but with frequent references to other ancient Indo-European languages as well. The Dissertation consists of 10 Chapters: Chapter 1 gives a brief account of the scholarship; Chapter 2 offers a theoretical model for the origin and development of the categories of aspect and tense in Indo-European and Greek. Meid's model for successive stages in the development of PIE is accepted, with a few modifications, and it is argued that in early IE only aspect was part of the Indo-European verbal system, and that tense was introduced in later phases of the proto-language. It is also argued that the injunctive, as attested in Indo-Iranian and Homeric Greek, is the earliest form of the PIE verb. Chapter 3 lays out further theoretical and methodological foundations for this study. Chapters 4-9 are an exhaustive analysis of the reduplicated present forms as used in the textual context of Homeric Greek. The significance of the context in the semantic interpretation is abundantly stressed and illustrated with the examination of numerous passages. In addition, extralinguistic material, socio-cultural, historical and anthropological features of the ancient Greek and Indo-European society, is also taken into serious consideration. Chapter 4 and 5 deal with the primary and secondary reduplicated presents of the athematic conjugational type. Chapter 6 discusses the verbs of the usd\mu\acute\iota\mu\nu\omegausd type, and Chapter 7 verbs with initial vowel. It is found that the verbs discussed in Chapters 4-7 are predominantly perfective, with a number of secondary sub-specializations, mainly contextual variants of the primary meaning. This calls for a revision of the traditional views with regard to the meaning of the reduplicated present formations in Greek, and perhaps Indo-European as well. Chapter 8 discusses the verbs in -sko-, whereas Chapter 9 deals with verbs of the so-called "intensive" type. With this group also a number of onomatopoetic forms are discussed. Chapter 10 summarizes the results of our inquiry, giving the prospects for further study along similar lines. The methodological framework laid out in Chapter 3 is placed into a philological diachronic perspective, with special emphasis placed on the importance of the context for the study of meaning.

Ancient languages

Classical studies

Greek

Language, literature and linguistics

Linguistics

present tense

G. Giannakis

R. Anttila

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