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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      25 August 2005
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      9780511482984
      9780521847896
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482984
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      (216 x 138 mm)
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      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Languages, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of means, and this work explores the language's development of prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it turns to this central question: under what conditions is the agent expressed by a construction other than hupo with the genitive? The book traces the development of these expressions from Homer through classical prose and drama, paying attention to the semantic, syntactic, and metrical conditions that favoured the use of one preposition over another. It concludes with a study of the decline of hupo as an agent marker in the first millennium AD. Although the focus is on developments in Greek, translation of the examples should render it accessible to linguists studying changes in prepositional systems generally.

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    'This is the first book-length study of the development of prepositions to mark the agents of passive verbs in Greek. The reader is shown a series of exciting snapshots of the history of Greek from Homer down to Modern Greek through the window of this one aspect of grammatical development. … keen linguists will find it an inspiring example of what good science should look like.'

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