A morphosyntactic and semantic analysis of the augment use and absence in the oldest Greek literary texts (800-500 BC). Ghent University
My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using special endings but also by adding a prefix to the verbal form. This prefix is called the “augment” in Classical Philology and Indo-European scholarship. It was mandatory in Phrygian, in classical Greek and classical Sanskrit, but ...