Ancient Greek Case attraction: infinitive clauses

• Grant number: 19/18473-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Effective date (Start): October 20, 2019
• Effective date (End): April 12, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Languages
• Principal Investigator: José Marcos Mariani de Macedo
• Grantee: Caio Borges Aguida Geraldes
• Supervisor: Philomen Probert
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Oxford, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/23334-2 - Case attraction in Infinitive clauses of ancient Greek: a study on Herodotus, Plato and Xenophon, BP.MS

Abstract

After having compiled all the data necessary to our research and started the evaluation of the hypotheses made by grammarians and researchers on the behaviour of Ancient Greek case attraction on infinitive clauses, it became clear that a more robust theoretical framework was needed for presenting a proper linguistic explanation of the phenomenon. Some methodological and theoretical approaches were evaluated, and it seemed that a combination of philological and typological analyses was the fittest approach to or data. The results brought by Philomen Probert's analysis of early greek relative clauses (2015) led us to consider that a period on her supervision at Oxford University would be profitable for our work. (AU)