Noun Incorporation and Nominal Compounding in Classical Greek: Νομοθέτης as a Case Study
doi: https://doi.org/10.31810/rsel.55.2.4
Keywords:
Noun Incorporation; Compounding; Agent Nouns; Ancient GreekAbstract
In recent years, the impact of Nominal Incorporation in languages has been studied. Ancient Greek is a non-polysynthetic language which, in complex verbs, allows the incorporation of the Direct Object of the base verb as the first element of the compound, thus forming a compound verb whose Direct Object transposes another element of the simple verb of origin. This is the situation that Mithun’s typology establishes as Type II. Now, we propose to study Nominal Incorporation insofar as it affects nominal compounds, especially in agent nouns, and see to what extent it ratifies the proposals that have been given for Greek complex verbs.
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