ORIGINS OF THE GREEK VERB ANDREAS WILLI UniversityofOxford UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107195554 doi:10.1017/9781108164207 ©AndreasWilli2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-107-19555-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ORIGINS OF THE GREEK VERB Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics, and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outlineinfullthedevelopmentswhichledfromtheremotestrecover- able stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in Homer and other early Greek texts. Bycombiningthemethodsofcomparativeandinternal reconstruc- tion with a careful examination of large collections of primary data andinsightsgainedfromthestudyoflanguagechangeandlinguistic typology, Andreas Willi uncovers the deeper reasons behind many surfaceirregularitiesandoffersanewunderstandingofhowcategories suchasaspect,tense,andvoiceinteract.Drawinguponevidencefrom all majorbranches of Indo-European, and providingexhaustive cri- ticalcoverageofscholarlydebateonthemostcontroversialissues,this bookwillbeanessentialreferencetoolforanyoneseekingorientation in this burgeoning but increasingly fragmented area of linguistic research. andreas willi is Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. He is authorofTheLanguagesofAristophanes:AspectsofLinguisticVariation inClassicalAtticGreek(2003)andSikelismos:Sprache,Literaturund Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (2008). He is editor of The LanguageofGreekComedy(2002)andco-editor(withP.Probert)of LawsandRulesinIndo-European(2012). ORIGINS OF THE GREEK VERB ANDREAS WILLI UniversityofOxford UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107195554 doi:10.1017/9781108164207 ©AndreasWilli2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-107-19555-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ORIGINS OF THE GREEK VERB Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics, and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outlineinfullthedevelopmentswhichledfromtheremotestrecover- able stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in Homer and other early Greek texts. Bycombiningthemethodsofcomparativeandinternal reconstruc- tion with a careful examination of large collections of primary data andinsightsgainedfromthestudyoflanguagechangeandlinguistic typology, Andreas Willi uncovers the deeper reasons behind many surfaceirregularitiesandoffersanewunderstandingofhowcategories suchasaspect,tense,andvoiceinteract.Drawinguponevidencefrom all majorbranches of Indo-European, and providingexhaustive cri- ticalcoverageofscholarlydebateonthemostcontroversialissues,this bookwillbeanessentialreferencetoolforanyoneseekingorientation in this burgeoning but increasingly fragmented area of linguistic research. andreas willi is Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. He is authorofTheLanguagesofAristophanes:AspectsofLinguisticVariation inClassicalAtticGreek(2003)andSikelismos:Sprache,Literaturund Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (2008). He is editor of The LanguageofGreekComedy(2002)andco-editor(withP.Probert)of LawsandRulesinIndo-European(2012). ORIGINS OF THE GREEK VERB ANDREAS WILLI UniversityofOxford UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107195554 doi:10.1017/9781108164207 ©AndreasWilli2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. isbn978-1-107-19555-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate.