Contents -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- General abbreviations -- Signs and symbols -- Bibliographical abbreviations -- Ancient authors and works -- Introduction -- 1 Overview -- 2 Studying AG V1 compounds: scope and aims -- 3 Methodology: V1 compounds in the context of the AG compound system -- 4 The Corpus -- 5 Structure (i): Defining compounding and compound categories -- 6 Structure (ii): The historical perspective -- 7 Structure (iii): The use of V1 compounds in context -- Chapter One. Compounding and the Classification of Compounds -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Compounds and compounding -- 3 The definition of compounds -- 3.1 Defining criteria: spelling, stress, inflectional markers -- 4 Ancient Greek compounding as stem compounding -- 4.1 A typical morphophonological feature: the linking vowel -- 4.2 Vocalic encounters: hiatus, elision, contraction and lengthening -- 4.3 Phonological features: accent -- 4.4 Writing of Greek compounds -- 5 Semantic approaches to compounding -- 5.1 Lexicalization and idiomaticity -- 5.2 Lexicalization and idiomaticity in Ancient Greek -- 6 Syntactic approaches to compounding -- 6.1 Synthetic compounds -- 6.2 Romance compounds -- 6.3 Recursiveness in compounding -- 6.4 Syntactic approaches to Ancient Greek compounding: inflected FCs and univerbations -- 6.5 Summary -- 7 Towards the classification of compounds: basic criteria -- 7.1 Heads, headedness and related issues -- 7.2 Endocentric and exocentric compounds -- 7.3 Right-headed and left-headed compounds -- 7.4 Summary -- 7.5 Syntax and semantics as classificatory criteria -- 8 A model of classification -- 8 .1 Subordinated and coordinated as the two fundamental categories -- 9 The classification of Ancient Greek compounds: introductory issues -- 9.1 Classic approaches: from Sanskrit to Greek.

9.2 Rektion, government, verbal nexus -- 9.3 Endocentric and exocentric in the Greek compound system -- 9.4 Right-oriented and left-oriented compounds -- 10 Conclusion -- Chapter Two. The Compound Categories of Ancient Greek -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Coordinated compounds -- 2.1 Classification issues: endocentric and exocentric coordinated compounds -- 2.2 Coordinated compounds in Greek -- 3 Iterative compounds -- 3.1 Iterative compounds in Greek -- 4 Subordinated compounds -- 4.1 Right-oriented endocentric determinative compounds in Greek -- 4.2 [N N]N endocentric determinative compounds -- 4.3 [A N]N endocentric determinative compounds -- 4.4 [P N]N endocentric determinative compounds -- 4.5 [Num N]N endocentric determinative compounds -- 4.6 [P A]A, [A A]A and [N A]A endocentric determinative compounds -- 4.7 Overview of the development of right-oriented endocentric determinative compounds in Greek -- 5 Right-oriented exocentric determinative compounds (bahuvrihis) -- 5.1 Structure, suffixes and accent -- 5.2 The relationship between bahuvrihis and determinative compounds -- 5.3 Types and productivity of bahuvrihis -- 5.4 Metaphorical function of the FC -- 6 V2 compounds -- 6.1 Bound SCs: root compounds -- 6.2 Bound SCs: compounds in ‑ής -- 6.3 Unbound SCs: agentive adjectives and nouns in ‑ος -- 6.3.1 Hypotheses on the PIE origin of ‑ος compounds -- 6.3.2 Compounds in ‑ος and their simplicia: towards a [N N] structure? -- 6.3.3 On ablaut in the SC -- 6.4 Unbound SCs: agentive compounds in ‑της (and those in ‑τηρ and ‑τωρ) -- 6.4.1 The rise of ‑της forms -- 6.4.2 Morphology and structure of ‑της compounds -- 6.5 Summary: agentive compounds in Ancient Greek -- 6.6 Unbound SCs: compounded participles -- 6.7 Unbound SCs: V2 adjectives in ‑τoς -- 6.8 Unbound second constituents: residual classes.

6.9 Greek right-oriented V2 compounds: summary -- 7 Left-oriented subordinated compounds -- 7.1 Prepositional compounds -- 7.2 Left-oriented determinative compounds -- 7.2.1 The question of 'reversed bahuvrihis' -- 7.2.2 The Armstrong sub-type -- 7.2.3 [N N]A reversed bahuvrihis? -- 7.3 Left-oriented endocentric determinative compounds with a substantival head -- 7.4 Determinative compounds with a governing adjectival head -- 7.5 Left-oriented verb-first compounds and the question of their interpretation -- 7.5.1 The FC of V1 compounds: descriptive overview -- 7.5.2 Productivity of Ancient Greek V1 compounds -- 7.5.3 Exocentricity of V1 compounds -- 7.5.4 Left orientation and word order patterns -- 8 Onomastics and compounds -- 8.1 Onomastics and V1 compounds -- 9 Compound verbs -- 10 The use of compounds in Ancient Greek -- 11 Conclusion -- Chapter Three. The Study of Ancient Greek and Indo-European V1 Compounds in the Last Two Centuries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The investigation of Greek V1 compounds in the last two centuries: preliminary considerations -- 3 Early nineteenth-century work -- 4 Wilhelm Clemm and the stem hypothesis -- 5 Jacobi, Delbrück and Brugmann: from stems to imperatives -- 6 Beyond the imperatival hypothesis: other approaches to 6 τερψιμ́βροτος compounds -- 7 The syntactic hypothesis and other work on V1 compounds and IE word order -- 7.1 Further syntactic approaches -- 8 The stem hypothesis reconsidered: recent approaches -- 9 Two twentieth-century works on Greek V1 compounds -- 9.1 Theodor Knecht's Geschichte der griechischen Komposita vom Typ te???µß??t?? -- 9.2 Frei-Lüthy (1978) and the influence of onomastics -- 9.3 On the onomastic origin of V1 compounds: a critique -- 10 Conclusion.

Chapter Four. The Historical Perspective: PIE Background and Development of V1 Compounds in Early Greek -- 1 Introduction -- 2 V1 compounds in Indo-European -- 2.1 The PIE background of V1 compounds -- 2.2 Summary and working hypothesis: a late PIE bipartite system -- 3 φερεόικος type: structure, stems and linking elements -- 3.1 FCs in -?- -- 3.2 FCs in -?- -- 4 τερψιμ́βροτος type: structure, stems and linking elements -- 4.1 FCs in -εσι-, -σε- and -σo- -- 4.2 The synchronic role of action nouns -- 4.3 FCs in ‑τι‑ -- 4.3.1 Do Greek FCs in ‑ti‑ and ‑si‑ go back to old action or agent nouns? -- 4.3.2 The action nouns hypothesis: excursus on the Vedic evidence -- 5 -ti- and -si- forms: the Mycenaean evidence -- 5.1 Are -ti- forms the ancestors of -si- forms? -- 6 V1 compounds in the context of the PIE verbal system -- 6.1 The derivation of compounds FCs from verbal roots or stems -- 7 Mycenaean compounds as an intermediary stage -- 7.1 V1 compounds from *h2er- -- 7.2 V1 compounds from *h3er- -- 7.3 V1 compounds from *steh2- (or *teh2-) -- 7.4 V1 compounds from *k ȇ ns- -- 7.5 V1 compounds from *k ȇ nd- -- 7.6 V1 compounds from *med- -- 7.7 V1 compounds from *nes- -- 7.8 V1 compounds from *sweh2d- -- 7.9 The system of V1 compounds in Mycenaean -- 7.10 Summary -- 8 Compounds in -ti- in early alphabetic Greek -- 8.1 Οῤτιλ́οχος -- 8.2 Δωτώ -- 8.3 βηταρ́μων -- 8.4 βωτιαν́ειρα -- 8.5 Καστιάνειρα -- 8.6 ἀρτιεπής -- 8.7 Summary -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter Five. The Analysis of V1 Compounds Within the Greek Compound System. Part I: V1 Compounds Without V2 Counterparts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Setting up the V1-V2 comparison: corpus and methodology -- 3 V1 compounds without a V2 counterpart: introduction.

4 Class I: V1 compounds derived from verbs which give rise neither to a V2 compound nor to an agent noun -- 4.1 Poetic verbs and rare V1 compounds -- 4.2 Onomastic compound families -- 4.3 Common verbs, rare V1 families (less than four items) -- 4.4 Productive compound families of Class I (four items or more) -- 4.5 Class I: summary -- 5 Class II: V1 compounds without a V2 counterpart deriving from verbs which give rise to agent nouns -- 5.1 Agent nouns from the verbs in Class II -- 5.1.1 -t?? agent nouns -- 5.1.2 -t?? and -t?? agent nouns -- 5.1.3 Verbs producing agent nouns in -?? -- 5.1.4 Verbs giving rise to more than one type of agent noun -- 5.2 Analysis of Class II -- 5.3 The V1 compounds in Class II -- 5.3.1 Productive V1 compound families (four items or more) -- 5.3.1.1 Summary of characteristics -- 5.3.2 Less productive V1 compound families -- 5.3.2.1 Summary of characteristics -- 6 Class III: V1 compounds with an intransitive or passive V2 counterpart -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter Six. The Analysis of V1 Compounds Within the Greek Compound System. Part II: V1 Compounds With a V2 Counterpart -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Class IV: the base verbs, their agent nouns and verbal compounds -- 2.1 Verbs in Class IV and their agent nouns -- 2.1.1 Agent nouns and active V2 compounds of the CoC-os type -- 2.1.2 Agent nouns and active -?? V2 compounds in short vowel -- 2.1.3 Agent nouns in -t?? and -t?? -- 2.1.4 Agent nouns and V2 compounds in -t?? -- 2.1.5 Other types of verbal nouns and compounds with agentive semantics -- 2.2 Relevance of morphological analysis to the investigation of V1/V2 pairs -- 2.3 Verbs with only active V2 compounds in -?? -- 3 Competing pairs of V1 and V2 compounds: a contrastive analysis -- 3.1 Productive compound families -- 3.1.1 Summary of characteristics.

3.2 Less productive compound families.