Adverbi un prepozīcijas: gramatizēšanās liecības sengrieķu valodā
Adverbs and Prepositions: Evidences of Grammaticalization in Ancient Greek

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the earliest evidences of grammaticalization in the European text tradition, namely, with the grammaticalization of adverbs and prepositions in the Ancient Greek texts of Homeric Epic. The author analyzes varied facts concerning different stages of grammaticalization of these linguistic units in the language of Homeric Iliad and Odyssey. Concurrent evidences manifest the functioning of the Classical Greek prepositions as adverbs as well as the process of their further development when prepositions connect more tightly with the oblique cases of nouns, or, on the contrary, unite with verbs to form compounds (prefix-verbs).The author observes also the problems concerning the unambiguous understanding of the mentioned linguistic units (adverbs/prepositions/prefixes) in the process of grammaticalization.

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