The Use and Absence of the Augment in the Forms εδωκ(ε)(ν) and δωκ(ε)(ν) in the Odyssey, with a Brief Discussion of the Origin of the Augment

• Authors: De Decker Filip
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the use and absence of the augment in the third person singular and plural forms εδωκ(ε)(ν) and δωκ(ε)(ν) in the Odyssey. It uses metrically secure forms and lists the criteria for determining these secure forms. The article then proceeds to analyse them and verify if they confirm to previous syntactic and semantic observations which have been made for the use and absence of the augment: the clitic rule by Drewitt and Beck, the reduction rule by Kiparsky and the distinctions speech versus narrative, foreground versus background and remote versus recent past. It is argued that we are only dealing with tendencies and not with absolute rules, and that, as a consequence, there are exceptions to the rules mentioned. These tendencies can explain, however, most of the (un)augmented forms in early epic Greek and it can be argued that the augment was originally a marker of the near-deixis.

Keywords

EN

augment; epic Greek; injunctive; Greek and Indo-European verbal morphology

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 141
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 7-44

Contributors

author

De Decker Filip

• Universiteit Gent, Department of Linguistics, Section Greek Linguistics, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium