Liana Tronci, Perspectives On Koine Greek. Studies In Morphology, Syntax, And Lexicon
The volume proposes a new approach to the study of Hellenistic Greek with special attention to Biblical Greek. The studies collected in the volume are organised into three parts, devoted to verbal morphology, syntax, and lexicon, respectively. In the first part, the focus is on verbal voice and its markers, particularly middle and passive voices in the aorist and future tenses. In the second part, three syntactic constructions typical of Biblical Greek are analysed, namely pseudo-coordinated and serial verb constructions, the so-called periphrastic constructions formed by eimí ‘be’ and the present participle, and the constructions opened by the formula kaì egéneto ‘and there was’, which are calques of Biblical Hebrew wayehī construction. In the third part of the volume, the focus is on lexicon and derivational morphology. Two interrelated classes of derivatives are analysed, i.e. the verbs ending in -izō and the nouns ending in -ismós and -istḗs. The studies collected in the volume are corpus-based and adopt a perspective that is both synchronic and diachronic, not neglecting, where relevant, sociolinguistic analysis.
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