Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relations among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of conceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development. The book, based on a wide, diachronically ordered corpus, aims at providing a usage-based analysis of possible patterns of semantic extension, including the mapping of abstract domains onto the concrete domain of space. An analysis of the Greek data further highlights the interplay between specific spatial relations and the internal structure of the entities involved, and shows how case semantics may account for differences on the referential level, rather than merely express clause internal relations. The first chapter contains a typologically based discussion of semantic roles, which sets the language-specific analysis in a wider framework, showing its general relevance and applicability.

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Silvia Luraghi

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-358) and index.

Editorial page 3
Title page 4
LCC page 5
Table of contents 6
Preface 10
List of abbreviations 12
Introduction 14
0.0. Aims of the book 14
0.1. Ancient Greek 15
0.1.1. Accessibility of Ancient Greek data 15
0.1.2. Greek varieties 15
0.1.3. Parts of speech and inflectional categories 16
0.2. Texts used for this book 17
0.2.1. The Homeric poems 17
0.2.2. Herodotus' Histories 18
0.2.3. Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars 18
0.2.4. Plato's Dialogues 18
0.2.5. Aristotle 19
0.2.6. Other Attic authors 20
0.2.7. Xenophon 20
0.2.8. Later works 21
0.3. Some remarks on the glosses 21
Theoretical foundations 24
1.0. Introduction 24
1.1. The meaning of grammatical forms 24
1.1.1. Lexical meaning 26
1.1.2. 'Grammatical' and 'concrete' (uses of) cases
27
1.1.3. 'New' and 'old' metaphors
28
1.1.4. Mental maps 29
1.2. Semantic roles 30
1.2.1. Space 33
1.2.2. Time 40
1.2.3. Comitative 41
1.2.4. Causal semantic roles 43
1.2.5. Recipient 52
1.2.6. Beneficiary 53
1.2.7. Experiencer 55
1.2.8. Possessor 56
1.2.9. Purpose 58
1.2.10. Patient 59
1.2.11. Manner 60
1.2.12. Area 60
The semantics of Greek cases 62
2.0. Introduction 62
2.1. Case syncretism 62
2.1.1. Case syncretism as a diachronic process 62
2.1.2. Genitive and ablative 63
2.1.3. Dative, locative, and instrumental 64
2.2. The meaning of cases without prepositions 65
2.2.1. The accusative 65
2.2.2. The genitive 71
2.2.3. The dative 76
2.3. The sub-system of local cases and its substitutes 85
Greek prepositions 88
3.0. Introduction 88
3.0.1. Categorial status 88
3.0.2. Phrase structure 89
3.0.3. Case variation 92
3.0.4. Position of the particles in Homer 94
Conclusions 328
4.0. Introduction 328
4.1. Spatial meaning of the prepositions 328
4.2. Paths of semantic extension and abstract uses of prepositions 333
4.2.1. Time 333
4.2.2. Comitative 333
4.2.3. Agent 333
4.2.4. Instrument 334
4.2.5. Intermediary 335
4.2.6. Cause 336
4.2.7. Recipient/Addressee 337
4.2.8. Beneficiary 337
4.2.9. Possessor 339
4.2.10. Purpose 339
4.2.11. Area 340
4.2.12. Summary of possible semantic extensions 340
4.3. Distribution of cases within PPs 341
4.3.1. The prepositional genitive 342
4.3.2. The prepositional dative 343
4.3.3. The prepositional accusative 344
4.4. Further developments 344
Notes 348
References 364
Name index 372
Subject index 374
The STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES 377

2024-07-22