Ezra la Roi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ezra la Roi is involved.
2026 Chapter 12. A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 372–385 | Chapter
This chapter presents typological generalizations that can be derived from a comparison of the data presented in Chapters 2–11 in this volume. The languages are compared in the light of the two predictions presented in Chapter 1: (i) across and within languages, dedicated habitual expressions… read more
2026 Chapter 5. Habitual constructions in Ancient Greek A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 145–169 | Chapter
In this paper, I tease apart the semantic differences between three major habitual constructions in Ancient Greek (8th–4th centuries BCE): (1) a suffixal construction that uses the mislabelled “iterative” suffix with past tenses, (2) a modal past habitual which had developed out of a past… read more
2024 Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek: Between implicature and conventionalization Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:2, pp. 335–375 | Article
Polarity reversal has recently been argued to be the defining characteristic of counterfactuality. Ancient Greek had a diverse set of constructions which bring about polarity reversal that is not the direct result of a negation marker nor do they all express a counterfactual meaning. It is the… read more
2022 Weaving together the diverse threads of category change: Intersubjective ἀμέλει ‘of course’ and imperative particles in Ancient Greek Diachronica 39:2, pp. 159–192 | Article
This paper investigates category changes among imperative particles in Ancient Greek. Using diachronic evidence from the category change of the imperative ἀμέλει (amélei ‘don’t worry’ > ‘of course’) and similar imperative particles, ἄγε (áge), ἴθι (íthi), φέρε (fére), εἰπέ μοι (eipé moi) and… read more