Overview

Support-verb constructions, like 'to make a suggestion' or 'to take heart', are verbal multi-word expressions. They are lexically, morphosyntactically, semantically, and pragmatically versatile and thus form an integral, enriching, and natural part of the classical Greek lexicon grammar. Taking heart does not involve barbarism and taking a picture does not involve theft, yet how do you know in a corpus language like classical literary Attic Greek? This book embraces the diversity of this internally heterogenous group of constructions which sit at three interfaces.

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Author:   Victoria Beatrix Fendel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004730519

ISBN 10:   9004730516
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Support-verb constructions: Past, present, and future  1.1 Support-verb constructions  1.2 The past: Research review  1.3 Perspectives: Four controversies  1.4 The present: Aims and objectives  1.5 The future: Overview of chapters 2 Methodology: Definition, data, identification, and discovery  2.1 Corpus of Texts and Test Sample  2.2 Definition  2.3 The Ninox database  2.4 Analysis tools 3 Lexicon: Identification and discovery of support-verb-construction families  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Analysis  3.3 Summary and conclusion 4 Morphosyntax: Internal and external agreement with objects and negatives  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Analysis  4.3 Summary and conclusion 5 Semantics: Lexical words or grammatical syntagms with passives and inanimate subjects  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Analysis  5.3 Summary and conclusion 6 Discourse-pragmatics: Cohesion and coherence in relativisation and anaphora contexts  6.1 Introduction  6.2 Analysis  6.3 Summary and conclusion 7 Summary and Conclusion: A Framework for Support-Verb Constructions in Literary Classical Attic  7.1 Summary: Support-verb constructions as an enrichment of the lexicon-grammar  7.2 Conclusion I: Context and Co-text  7.3 Conclusion II: Base-verb constructions, lexical gaps, and markedness  7.4 Conclusion III: A framework of support-verb constructions  7.5 Outlook: Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek Appendix 1: Identification of support-verb constructions Appendix 2: Discovery of support-verb constructions Bibliography Index of passages discussed Subject index

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Victoria B. Fendel (D.Phil. Oxford, 2018) is a research associate at the University of Oxford, one of the editors of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME initiative. Her research focusses on language contact (Oxford University Press, 2022) and multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources.

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