title: The Development of εὑρίσκω ‘find’ as Evidence towards a Diachronic Solution of the Matching-Problem in Ancient Greek Complementation
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metadata.value: La Roi, Ezra
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-11T11:11:24Z
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metadata.value: 2021-02-11T11:11:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: La Roi E. The Development of εὑρίσκω ‘find’ as Evidence towards a Diachronic Solution of the Matching-Problem in Ancient Greek Complementation. Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (2), 191–207.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23860
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metadata.value: This paper traces the semantic and constructional development of the complement-taking
  verb εὑρίσκω ‘find’ from Homeric Greek to Post-Classical Greek. First, the paper details
  the semantic development of εὑρίσκω using characteristics such as predicate type, semantic
  role of the subject and factivity. Subsequently, explanations are offered for the constructional
  development of εὑρίσκω, using insights from grammaticalization research such as
  reanalysis and analogy. In contrast to previous studies on Ancient Greek complementation
  which support the idea of a systematic Classical Greek opposition of factive participial
  versus non-factive infinitival complementation, this paper shows how bridging contexts of
  mental judgment εὑρίσκω with a participial complement do not follow this opposition as
  they are non-factive and changed their meaning (with reanalysis) before changing their
  complementation structure (through analogy). Also, by extending our view to the individual
  history of other cognitive predicates (ἐπίσταμαι, γιγνώσκω and οἶδα) the author shows
  that other cognitive predicates undergo similar developments from factive+object to factive+
  ACP to non-factive+ACI, although their individual histories are still in need of a systematic
  diachronic account. Thus, complementation patterns per period could be analysed
  in a more fine-grained way by analysing complementation patterns bottom-up from the
  semantic and constructional evolutions of individual predicates. Also, the findings from this
  paper provide evidence towards a diachronic solution of the so-called matching-problem:
  diachronically related semantic and constructional stages strongly motivate the choice of
  a specific complementation structure but absolute factivity oppositions in Classical Greek
  complementation are rather strong tendencies.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greek complementation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: matching-problem
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: factivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reanalysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: analogy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: εὑρίσκω
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cognitive predicates
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Development of εὑρίσκω ‘find’ as Evidence towards a Diachronic Solution of the Matching-Problem in Ancient Greek Complementation
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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