Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?

Victoria Beatrix Fendel (ed)

Synopsis

This volume brings together corpora that span more than 3,000 years of the history of the Greek language, from Ittzés' chapter on the proto-language to Giouli's chapter on the modern language. The authors take wider or narrower approaches with regard to the form and function
of the type of construction that they include in the group of support-verb constructions: while all would agree that English to take initiative is a support-verb construction, opinions differ on English to take wing. The chapters reflect a fascinating diversity of approaches to support-verb constructions, including Natural Language Processing, Comparative Philology, New Testament Exegesis, Coptology, and General Linguistics. The volume is structured along the three interfaces that support-verb constructions sit on, the syntax-lexicon, the syntax-semantics, and the syntax-pragmatics interfaces. We finish with four concrete avenues for further research. Faced with the diversity of approaches and the magnitude of disagreements arising from them when working with as internally diverse a group of constructions as support-verb constructions, we strive for in varietate unitas.

Chapters

  • Proemium
    Taking action
    Victoria Beatrix Fendel
    Proemium
  • Part I: Between too little and too much
    The origins of data
  • Proto-Indo-European support verbs and support-verb constructions
    Máté Ittzés
    Chapter 1
  • Annotating light-verb constructions for Human Language Technologies
    The PARSEME-el corpus
    Voula Giouli
    Chapter 2
  • Part II: Between comparative concept and descriptive category
    The syntax-semantics interface
  • What can be used in Greek and Latin?
    A comparative study of the support verbs χράομαι kʰraomai and utor
    Lucía Madrigal Acero
    Chapter 3
  • Support-verb constructions in the Gospels
    A comparative study between Greek and Latin
    José Miguel Baños, María Dolores Jiménez López
    Chapter 4
  • Part III: Between context and co-text
    The syntax-pragmatics interface
  • χράομαι khraomai as a support verb in the medical jargon of the Hippocratic Corpus
    Elena Squeri
    Chapter 5
  • Support-verb constructions and other periphrases in Aristotle’s Rhetoric (books 1 and 2)
    Tomas Veteikis
    Chapter 6
  • Support-verb constructions as level-of-speech markers in a corpus of hagiographical literature
    Alfonso Vives Cuesta
    Chapter 7
  • Part IV: Between analytic and synthetic
    The syntax-lexicon interface
  • Support the sinner not the sin
    Support-verb constructions and New Testament ethical frameworks
    Cressida Ryan
    Chapter 8
  • Analytical and synthetic verbs
    The lightness degree of ποιέω poiéō
    Anna Pompei, Flavia Pompeo, Eleonora Ricci
    Chapter 9
  • Analyticity and syntheticity in Coptic
    Noun incorporation, word segmentation, and clitics
    So Miyagawa
    Chapter 10
  • Epilogue
    Taking wing
    Victoria Beatrix Fendel
    Epilogue

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Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?

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Victoria Beatrix Fendel

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 (Brill, 2025) in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources

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November 11, 2024
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Phraseology and Multiword Expressions

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Fendel, Victoria Beatrix (ed.). 2024. Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?. (Phraseology and Multiword Expressions 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13836407
Copyright (c) 2024 Máté Ittzés; Victoria Beatrix Fendel; Voula Giouli, Lucía Madrigal Acero, José Miguel Baños, Maria Dolores Jiménez López, Elena Squeri, Tomas Veteikis, Alfonso Vives Cuesta, Cressida Ryan, Anna Pompei, Flavia Pompeo, Eleonora Ricci, So Miyagawa

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