This chapter focuses on the alternation between analytic constructions (e.g., παῖδας ποιοῦμαι paîdas poioûmai ‘to beget children’) and equivalent synthetic verbs (e.g., παιδοποιέω paidopoiéō ‘to beget children’). The synthetic forms are considered here as noun incorporations in synchrony, as the second element of the compound is a verb that can also occur as a free form. The analysis of data (from the 5th c. BC to the beginning of the 2nd c. AD) shows that the selection of either analytic or synthetic forms is made for (i) semantic reasons, i.e., the specificity of the noun, and (ii) textual reasons, i.e., the establishment of the referent in the discourse, closely related to the information structure. Moreover, the overlapping between support-verb constructions and incorporations only concerns so-called simple-event nominals, whereas complex-event nominals, which are fully predicative, cannot be incorporated. Analytic constructions equivalent to non-eventive noun incorporations are usually not support-verb constructions.
Questo capitolo è incentrato sull’alternanza tra costruzioni analitiche, come παῖδας ποιοῦμαι paîdas poioûmai ‘generare figli’, e forme sintetiche equivalenti, come παιδοποιέω paidopoiéō ‘generare figli’. Le forme sintetiche sono qui considerate incorporazioni del nome in sincronia, in quanto il secondo elemento del composto è un verbo che può occorrere anche in forma libera. L’analisi dei dati (dal sec. V a.C. all’inizio del II d. C.) mostra che l’alternanza tra forme analitiche e sintetiche è determinata i) da ragioni semantiche, ossia dalla specificità del nome, nonché ii) da ragioni testuali di instaurazione del referente nel discorso, strettamente legate alla distribuzione dell’informazione. L’area di sovrapposizione tra costruzioni a verbo supporto e incorporazioni, inoltre, riguarda solo i cosiddetti simple-event nominals, mentre i complex-event nominals, pienamente eventivi, non risultano mai incorporati. Le costruzioni analitiche che equivalgono a incorporazioni di nomi non eventivi non sono, invece, costruzioni a verbo supporto.
Analytical and synthetic verbs. The lightness degree of ποιέω poiéō / Pompei, Anna; Pompeo, Flavia; Ricci, Eleonora. - (2024), pp. 261-290. - PHRASEOLOGY AND MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS. [10.5281/zenodo.14017937].
Analytical and synthetic verbs. The lightness degree of ποιέω poiéō
Anna Pompei;Flavia Pompeo;Eleonora Ricci
2024
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This chapter focuses on the alternation between analytic constructions (e.g., παῖδας ποιοῦμαι paîdas poioûmai ‘to beget children’) and equivalent synthetic verbs (e.g., παιδοποιέω paidopoiéō ‘to beget children’). The synthetic forms are considered here as noun incorporations in synchrony, as the second element of the compound is a verb that can also occur as a free form. The analysis of data (from the 5th c. BC to the beginning of the 2nd c. AD) shows that the selection of either analytic or synthetic forms is made for (i) semantic reasons, i.e., the specificity of the noun, and (ii) textual reasons, i.e., the establishment of the referent in the discourse, closely related to the information structure. Moreover, the overlapping between support-verb constructions and incorporations only concerns so-called simple-event nominals, whereas complex-event nominals, which are fully predicative, cannot be incorporated. Analytic constructions equivalent to non-eventive noun incorporations are usually not support-verb constructions.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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