Un problema de lengua homérica: la desinencia -φι
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1987.v55.i2.622Abstract
The author of this paper tries to show the historical evolution of -φι in Mycenaean and Homeric Greek. In spite of the apparently considerable divergence between mic. -pi and hom. -φι, the function of the -φι case in Mycenaean —instr. locat.— is also the primary function of -φι in the Epic language. Moreover, in the language of Homer -φι always functions in a way closer to the dative than to the genitive. The traditionally adduced examples of -φι as a genitive in some passages of the Iliad and the Odyssey can be interpreted otherwise. The evolution of -φι that we can test in the Homeric works, was not a merely artificial one. On the contrary, it bears a close relation with a series of morphophonological developments which took place in the spoken language during the shift from the second to the first millennium B.C. As a result from that, -φι disappears from the normal spoken language very early, but the Homeric bards maintain this archaism for metrical and poetical reasons.
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1987-12-30
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Nieto Hernández, P. (1987). Un problema de lengua homérica: la desinencia -φι. Emerita, 55(2), 273–306. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1987.v55.i2.622
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