Expressions Agency Ancient Greek
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
ISBN-10
0521847893
ISBN-13
9780521847896
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 25th, 2005
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
515 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.80 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
LinguisticsHistorical & comparative linguisticsHistorical and comparative linguistics
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This title explores the development by Ancient Greek of prepositions to mark the agents of passive verbs, from Homer through to the first millennium AD. The translation of examples renders the title accessible to non-classicists interested in changes in prepositional systems generally.
Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of means, and this work explores the language's development of prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it turns to this central question: under what conditions is the agent expressed by a construction other than hupo with the genitive? The book traces the development of these expressions from Homer through classical prose and drama, paying attention to the semantic, syntactic, and metrical conditions that favoured the use of one preposition over another. It concludes with a study of the decline of hupo as an agent marker in the first millennium AD. Although the focus is on developments in Greek, translation of the examples should render it accessible to linguists studying changes in prepositional systems generally.
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