In:The Life Cycle of Adpositions
T. Givón
[Not in series 236] 2021
► pp. 33–64
Chapter 2The diachronic baseline
Pre-nominal prepositions in Homeric Greek
Published online: 2 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.236.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.236.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2Phonological and grammatical transciption: Caveats and apologia
- 2.3The Homeric text
- 2.4Pre-nominal prepositions in the Homeric text
- 2.4.1Preamble
- 2.4.2Examples of the use of individual pre-nominal prepositions
- a. ana- ‘up’, ‘upward’
- b. kata- ‘down’, ‘downward’
- c. en(i)- ‘in’, ‘inside’, extended to ‘at’
- d. ex-/ ek- ‘out(of)’, ‘from’, extended to agentive ‘by’
- e. eis-, es-, ei- ‘to’
- f. apo- ‘from’, ‘away from’
- g. epi- ‘on’, ‘upon’, ‘over’
- h. peri- ‘over’, ‘above’, ‘about’, ‘around’
- i. para- ‘by’, ‘next to’, ‘near’
- j. pro(s)- ‘in front of’, ‘before’, ‘toward’, ‘to’, extended to ‘through/by/with’
- k. dia- ‘through’
- l. meta- ‘with’, ‘among’, ‘about’
- m. sun- ‘with’ (associative)
- n. ama- ‘with’
- o. amfi(s)- ‘about’, ‘around’, ‘near’, extended to ‘with’
- p. hupo- ‘under’, extended to agentive ‘by’
- q. huper- ‘above’, ‘over’
- r. anti(os)- ‘against’, ‘facing’, ‘across from’
- 2.5Quantitative text distribution
- 2.5.1Functional-syntactic distribution of pre-nominal preposition
- a.Pre-nominal prepositions used with intransitive verbs with an obligatory indirect object (either concrete or abstract)
- b.Prenominal prepositions used with di-transitive verbs with an obligatory indirect object (either concrete or abstract)
- c.Pre-nominal prepositions used with optional indirect objects regardless of verb-type
- 2.5.2Pre-verbal (OV) vs. post-verbal (VO) prepositional phrases
- 2.5.3Text frequency of nominal-attached vs. verb-attached prepositions
- 2.5.1Functional-syntactic distribution of pre-nominal preposition
- 2.6Summary
Notes Abbreviations of grammatical terms Appendix
