Synthetic Compounds in Late Medieval Greek (c. 1100–1500)
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Compounding is a diachronically productive word-formative process in the Greek language. There are a number of philologically and linguistically oriented studies that deal with this grammatical phenomenon in Classical, Hellenistic and Modern Greek. Compounding in Medieval Greek, however, has received very little attention so far (On Medieval Greek Compounds see, for example, Andriotis 1938; Psaltes 1913: 343–371). Unlike root or primary complex lexical items, which consist of purely nominal constituents, synthetic compounds are grammatical constructions in which the second element is a deverbal derivative by means of suffixation including zero-morpheme. In this paper, we attempt to provide an analysis of synthetic compounds in late Medieval Greek with respect to their typology (the agent-oriented type, the object-oriented type, the adverbial-complement type, and the predicate-type) and formal features (one stress, linking element, right-hand inflected, absence of internal inflection, etc.) showing at the same time whether or not they are subjected to the same empirical generalizations about the behavior of English synthetics such as External argument prohibition and First sister preference. The data for this paper were drawn from Kriaras’s Medieval Greek Lexicon and Trapp’s Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität. |
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