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The Preverb Eis- and Koine Greek Aktionsart

Shain, Rachel M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1238085936

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
This study analyzes one Koine Greek verb erchomai ‘go/come’ and one preverb eis- and how the preverb affects the verb’s lexical aspect. To determine the lexical aspect of erchomai and eis-erchomai, I annotate all instances of both verbs in the Greek New Testament and develop methodology for researching aktionsart in texts. Several tests for lexical aspect which might be applied to texts are proposed. Applying some of these tests to erchomai and eiserchomai, I determine that erchomai is an activity and eiserchomai is telic. A discussion of the Koine tense/aspect forms and their temporal and aspectual reference is included. I adopt Dowty’s 1979 aspect calculus to explain how eis- affects the lexical aspect of erchomai, using his CAUSE and BECOME operators to account for the meaning of eis-, which denotes an endpoint to motion such that the subject must be at a given location at the end of an interval over which eiserchomai is true.
Judith Tonhauser, PhD (Advisor)
Brian Joseph, PhD (Advisor)
Craige Roberts, PhD (Committee Member)
129 p.
Linguistics
Koine Greek; Greek; preverb; aktionsart; lexical aspect; erchomai; eis; Aorist; imperfective; grammatical aspect; aspect; linguistics; semantics; lexical semantics; telicity; New Testament; verbal prefix

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  • Shain, R. M. (2009). The Preverb Eis- and Koine Greek Aktionsart [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1238085936

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shain, Rachel. The Preverb Eis- and Koine Greek Aktionsart. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1238085936.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shain, Rachel. "The Preverb Eis- and Koine Greek Aktionsart." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1238085936

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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