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Variation with intrusive T in Ancient Greek

Anghelina, Catalin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1090606168

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2004, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Greek and Latin.
Nominal stems ending in t are very rare in Proto-Indo-European. Despite this fact Ancient Greek displays a series of nominal stems that end in t. Their presence in Ancient Greek suggests that the insertion of t in words of PIE origin must be a process which occurred in Greek itself. From a diachronic perspective these stems fall into two categories. The first is represented by words which display the t in their stems in all the historical records we have, both in epigraphical evidence-including Mycenaean-and in literary sources. For this category we cannot trace the moment and the place when this “older” t entered the paradigms. The second category, however, contains words that show an allomorphic variation between t-ful stems and t-less stems. Given the fact that Homer uses in the majority of cases the t-less stems one can see, in post-Homeric dialects, how the stems with this “intrusive” t coexist with the t-less stems and win eventually over. The main goal of the dissertation is to see how this allomorphic variation evolved through historical Greek. Its second purpose is to see what this allomorphic variation can tell us about the origin of the intrusive t. The perfect active participle shows up in historical Greek as a t-stem. Nevertheless, scanty evidence from Mycenaean suggested that in this dialect of Greek the participle may have been t-less. The work addresses this problem again and comes up with the hypothesis that the forms Mycenaean displays might be only adjectives derived from former t-less participles, but not t-less participles. Consequently, the t-ful participle may still be a creation of Common Greek. A last issue regards the –ti adverbs in Greek, which have been often considered to be former locatives of t-stems. The study shows that this hypothesis does not seem to be true and that they are more likely to be the result of an analogical process, which occurred in Greek and not in PIE.
Brian Joseph (Advisor)
Language, Ancient
kre/aj; adverbs; dialects; dative; GREEK; Homer; Attic

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  • Anghelina, C. (2004). Variation with intrusive T in Ancient Greek [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1090606168

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Anghelina, Catalin. Variation with intrusive T in Ancient Greek. 2004. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1090606168.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Anghelina, Catalin. "Variation with intrusive T in Ancient Greek." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1090606168

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