The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek

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While linguists and scholars have been poring over Koine Greek literary works for centuries, the semantics of the perfect tense continues to be a vexing issue in ancient Greek linguistics. Incorporating the most recent linguistic insights from both the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers a unified, comprehensive semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek. In addition to consolidating material from contemporary authors, noted classical scholar Robert Crellin draws on a large corpus of extant Koine Greek works--including the writings of Josephus, Polybius, Appian, and Plutarch--to address temporal problems of the perfect and pluperfect in Koine Greek, as well as linguistic issues relating to transitivity. After examining the behaviour of the perfect form from a lexical semantic standpoint, chapters incorporate syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate. Revelatory and thought-provoking, The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek offers illuminating insights into the precise meanings of the literary and scholarly writings of the ancient Greeks.