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Greek Prepositions: From Antiquity to the Present
Pietro Bortone
Abstract
New prepositions in Greek express solely spatial meanings, simultaneously lost by their older synonyms, whose use becomes restricted to non‐spatial senses—unless a recent synonym is not available. In time, new prepositions too develop non‐spatial meanings, eventually losing their spatial ones completely, repeating the life‐cycle of their predecessors.
Keywords: Greek, prepositions, cases, diachrony, localism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199556854 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556854.001.0001 |
