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Abstract
Support-verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct-object structures with support-verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth- to mid-seventh-century Egypt. By the fourth century, Greek and Egyptian (at this stage called Coptic) had co-existed in Egypt for about a millennium and the latter was gaining ground. The article focusses on the support-verb-construction families surrounding ἐξουσίαν exousian ‘power’ and ἐγγύην egguēn ‘surety’ as well as on a selection of structures with ποιέομαι poieomai ‘to do’. The article finds that direct-object structures in the data sample have differing explanations. Direct-object patterns are a marginal pattern in classical Greek already, such that some patterns can be explained by inheritance or the extension of a pattern to new contexts. However, some writers either idiolectally or sociolectally applied object patterns more widely based on the Coptic parallel. The syntax of support-verb constructions in Greek does not run counter to the verbal syntax otherwise, which may aid the fact that they do not introduce systemic changes.
支持动词结构是动词和名词的组合,用于填补谓词槽,例如,在I made the suggestion yesterday中提出建议。本文考察了从4世纪到7世纪中期的埃及希腊文献纸莎草纸中的直接宾语结构和支持动词结构。到第四世纪,希腊语和埃及语(在这个阶段被称为科普特语)在埃及共存了大约一千年,后者正在取得进展。本文就着重那些坏家伙support-verb-construction家庭周围ἐξουσίανexousian“权力”和ἐγγύηνegguēn“保证人”以及结构的选择与ποιέομαιpoieomai‘做’。文章发现数据样本中的直接宾语结构有不同的解释。直接对象模式在古典希腊语中已经是一种边缘模式,因此有些模式可以通过继承或将模式扩展到新的上下文中来解释。然而,一些作家在个人或社会上更广泛地应用了基于科普特语平行的对象模式。在希腊语中,支持动词结构的句法并不与动词性句法相反,这可能有助于它们不会引起系统的变化。
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Transactions of the Philological Society continues the earlier Proceedings (1852-53), and is the oldest scholarly periodical devoted to the general study of language and languages that has an unbroken tradition. Transactions reflects a wide range of linguistic interest and contains articles on a diversity of topics: among those published in recent years have been papers on phonology, Romance linguistics, generative grammar, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, Indo-European philology and the history of English.