Giving Gifts and doing Favours

Literary Classical Attic Greek Support-Verb Constructions

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Victoria B. Fendel (D.Phil. Oxford, 2018) is a research associate at the University of Oxford, one of the editors of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME initiative. Her research focusses on language contact (Oxford University Press, 2022) and multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources.
"This study is a well-rounded approach for those who wish to delve into the topic [of support-verb constructions] for the first time, and a necessary reference for researchers who wish to expand on their knowledge of SVCs." In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, by Lucía Madrigal Acero, 08 May 2026
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations

1 Support-verb constructions: Past, present, and future
 1.1 Support-verb constructions
 1.2 The past: Research review
 1.3 Perspectives: Four controversies
 1.4 The present: Aims and objectives
 1.5 The future: Overview of chapters

2 Methodology: Definition, data, identification, and discovery
 2.1 Corpus of Texts and Test Sample
 2.2 Definition
 2.3 The Ninox database
 2.4 Analysis tools

3 Lexicon: Identification and discovery of support-verb-construction families
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Analysis
 3.3 Summary and conclusion

4 Morphosyntax: Internal and external agreement with objects and negatives
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Analysis
 4.3 Summary and conclusion

5 Semantics: Lexical words or grammatical syntagms with passives and inanimate subjects
 5.1 Introduction
 5.2 Analysis
 5.3 Summary and conclusion

6 Discourse-pragmatics: Cohesion and coherence in relativisation and anaphora contexts
 6.1 Introduction
 6.2 Analysis
 6.3 Summary and conclusion

7 Summary and Conclusion: A Framework for Support-Verb Constructions in Literary Classical Attic
 7.1 Summary: Support-verb constructions as an enrichment of the lexicon-grammar
 7.2 Conclusion I: Context and Co-text
 7.3 Conclusion II: Base-verb constructions, lexical gaps, and markedness
 7.4 Conclusion III: A framework of support-verb constructions
 7.5 Outlook: Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek

Appendix 1: Identification of support-verb constructions
Appendix 2: Discovery of support-verb constructions
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
Subject index
Classicists (possibly with focus on philology), linguists (with focus on historical linguistics or multi-word expressions e.g. in the context of natural-language processing), Papyrologists (from a theoretical perspective), Byzantinists (metaphrasis perspective)
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