Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003 (Materiali Linguistici. Università di Pavia 38)

I present here a detailed appraisal of Luisa Amenta‟s Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni (2003). Amenta‟s study on verbal periphrases is a revised version of her Ph.D. thesis (1999), completed at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre under the supervision of Prof. dr. Marco Mancini. It offers a diachronic and typological confrontation of periphrastic constructions in both Greek and Latin. I briefly describe the term „verbal periphrasis‟ (§1), sketch the main points of previous research (§2) and outline the different chapters of Amenta‟s book (§3). Then I give some critical remarks (§4) and suggestions for further research (§5), concentrating on periphrases in Greek. I conclude with a list of typos and errors (§6).

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