Causative Continuum in Ancient Greek: Influence Verbs
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In this paper we study a group of influence verbs in ancient Greek: ἀναγκάζω, κωλύω, πείθω, κελεύω, αἰτέω, ἐάω. As causative verbs, all of them present similar features, but there are also syntactic and semantic aspects in which they differ. The specific behaviour of each verb depends on various factors that are studied here and that allow to place these predicates in a causative continuum, ranging from the implicative verbs to the nonimplicative.
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