Origins of the Greek Verb

This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.

List of contents

1. The Greek verbal system; 2. From Greek to Proto-Indo-European; 3. The reduplicated aorist; 4. The reduplicated present; 5. The perfect; 6. The thematic aorist; 7. The augment; 8. The s-aorist; 9. From Proto-Indo-European to Pre-Proto-Indo-European; 10. From Pre-Proto-Indo-European back to Greek.

About the author

Andreas Willi is Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. He is author of The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek (2003) and Sikelismos: Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (2008), and is editor of The Language of Greek Comedy (2002) and co-editor (with P. Probert) of Laws and Rules in Indo-European (2012).

Summary

By applying various techniques of linguistic reconstruction to a wide range of philological data, Origins of the Greek Verb presents a completely new and uniquely detailed model of the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language down to the period of the first texts written in Greek.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Willi, Andreas (University of Oxford) Willi, Willi Andreas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781316646878
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64687-8
• No. of pages: 745
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Ancient History, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics