Giannakis Georgios K. Studies in the syntax and semantics of the reduplicated presents of homeric Greek and Indo-European

Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1997. — 317 p. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 90). — ISBN 3-85124-665-9.Contents: History, Method, Definitions: Introduction. The Aspect and Tense System of Greek and Indo-European: Introductory remarks: The Tense-Aspect System of Indo-European. The Tense-Aspect System of Greek. Theoretical Prerequisites: Preliminary remarks: Introduction. Oral composition and linguistics. Cognitive linguistics, semiotics and philology. An anthropological approach to classical texts and the help of structural linguistics. Method and definitions: Form and meaning. Lexical vs. grammatical meaning. Main idea vs. background information. Homotropy. Metaptotism. Semantic neutralization. Conjunction reduction. Litotes or negatio contrarii. The role of preverbs. The role of nominal cases. Parataxis and coordination. Mythopoetic language and linguistic analysis. Reduplicated Presents of the athematic type: Introduction: Primary Verbs: δίδωμι. ἵημι. ἵστημι. κίχημι. πίμπλημι. τίθημι. Excursus: Indo-European *(H)nomṇ dheH₁. Secondary Verbs: δίδημι. δίζημι. ὀνίνημι. Reduplicated Presents of the thematic type: Introduction: Reduplicated Presents of the μίμνω type: μίμνω. ἴσχω. ἵζω. πίπτω. γίγνομαι. τίκτω. νίσσομαι. Reduplicated Presents with Initial Vowel: Introduction. ἰάλλω. ἰάπτω. ἰαύω. ἰάχω. Reduplicated Presents in -sko-: Introduction. γιγνώσκω. δειδίσκομαι. διδάσκω. ἐΐσκω. ἱλάσκομαι. κικλήσκω. μιμνήσκω. πιφαύσκω. τιτύσκομαι. Reduplicated Presents of the Intensive Type: Introduction. Intensive presents with partial reduplication in -i-: λιλαίομαι. τιταίνω. Intensive presents with full reduplication: δαιδάλλω. δαρδάπτω. δενδίλλω. μαιμάω. μαρμαίρω. μορμύρω. παιφάσσω. παμφαίνω. παπταίνω. ποιπνύω. πορφύρω. Intensive presents with “internal” reduplication: ἀτιτάλλω. ὀπιπεύω. Onomatopetic reduplicated presents: ἀκαχίζω. βαμβαίνω. καγχαλάω. γαρκαίρω. κωκύω. ὀλολύζω. παφλάζω. Conclusion. Abbreviations. Bibliography.