Construction grammar and Greek
- Author
- Jóhanna Barðdal (UGent) and Serena Danesi
- Organization
- Abstract
- Construction Grammar has its origin in the early work of Charles Fillmore and his Berkeley associates. It has, by now, become a viable alternative to other contemporary linguistic frameworks and is widely practiced in Europe and Asia, in addition to the United States. The fundamental assumption within Construction Grammar is that the basic unit of language is the construction, a form–meaning pairing. The framework was originally designed to account for the idiomatic, idiosyncratic and irregular in language, although the theoretical machinery used to account for this may also be used to capture regular and compositional aspects of language. Construction Grammar analyses of Ancient Greek are almost non-existent, with the exception of Cristofaro (2008). With the aid of two data sets from Ancient Greek, we lay out the ingredients of a constructional analysis for that language.
- Keywords
- Construction Grammar, Ancient Greek, Dative of Agent, Infinitive with Accusative Subject, Form–Meaning Correspondences, Idiosyncrasy
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5730711
- MLA
- Barðdal, Jóhanna, and Serena Danesi. “Construction Grammar and Greek.” Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Georgios K Giannakis, Brill, 2014, pp. 375–79.
- APA
- Barðdal, J., & Danesi, S. (2014). Construction grammar and Greek. In G. K. Giannakis (Ed.), Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics (pp. 375–379). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
- Chicago author-date
- Barðdal, Jóhanna, and Serena Danesi. 2014. “Construction Grammar and Greek.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, edited by Georgios K Giannakis, 375–79. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Barðdal, Jóhanna, and Serena Danesi. 2014. “Construction Grammar and Greek.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, ed by. Georgios K Giannakis, 375–379. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
- Vancouver
- 1.Barðdal J, Danesi S. Construction grammar and Greek. In: Giannakis GK, editor. Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill; 2014. p. 375–9.
- IEEE
- [1]J. Barðdal and S. Danesi, “Construction grammar and Greek,” in Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics, G. K. Giannakis, Ed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2014, pp. 375–379.
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booktitle = {{Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics}},
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title = {{Construction grammar and Greek}},
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