Cambio de estado y movimiento: resultativos en griego antiguo

Resumo

Descriptive grammars of Ancient Greek (AG) classify resultative adjectives as a specific class of secondary predicates; in sheer contrast, the latest studies on AG syntax do not address resultative adjectives as a topic, notwithstanding the attention devoted to resultative constructions in the aftermath of Talmy (1991)’ s typological hypothesis. This hypothesis links the behaviour of motion constructions (as a means to express a change of location) and resultative constructions (as a means to express a change of state). As AG data were surveyed from the standpoint of the typological hypothesis, resultative constructions were eventually concluded to be non-existent in AG (Horrocks-Stavrou, 2007; Acedo-Matellán, 2016). To account for such opposite views, a reappraisal of the core difference between resultative and resultative construction is here put forward; at the same time, further classifications of resultative constructions (such as «strong» vs. «weak» as well as «simple» vs. «complex » structures) are taken into account. This approach allows a re-evaluation of AG data: those constructions traditionally labelled as «resultative» are shown to be a non-homogeneous group, made up of a noticeably larger set of weak resultative constructions, along with a small, distinct group of structures which meet the requirements to be held as strong resultative constructions.