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    "pk": 62153,
    "title": "From <em>s</em>-Stems to -εσι-Compounds: Morphosemantic Constraints on Analogical Change in Ancient Greek",
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    "abstract": "<p>In Ancient Greek, verbal first compound members in -εσι- derive regularly from verbs with aorists in -εσ- (e.g., ἐτέλεσα ⇒ τελεσι-). From this context, the sequence -εσι- is reanalyzed as a linking element and extended to verbs without an aorist in -εσ- (e.g., πηγεσι- vs. aor. ἔπηξα). Previous analyses of this analogical extension have proved empirically inadequate. I reconstruct a process, active in Homeric Greek and parallel to the deverbative formation of verbal second members in -ής (Meissner 2006:186–96), which produces verbal first members in -εσι- by analogy with the compositional forms of <em>s</em>-stems (-τειχής : τειχεσι- :: -τελής : τελεσι-). The process starts with denominative verbs from neuter <em>s</em>-stems, which also produce second members in -ής. As these are reanalyzed as deverbative, a verbal first member in -εσι- is also created and specialized for transitive meanings. The new derivational rule spreads according to strictly defined patterns of proportional analogy to verbs without a connection to <em>s</em>-stems, but with verbal second members in -ής. Once the new subclass of τερψίμβροτος compounds in -εσι- is created, it patterns with the class of φερέοικος compounds in -ε- and provides the -ε- verbal first members with an -εσι- counterpart. While the analogical process ceases to be productive already in Homer, compounds in -εσι- remain in the lexicon of poetry and onomastics as archaisms.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
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        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Greek"
        },
        {
            "word": "Derivation"
        },
        {
            "word": "analogy"
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            "word": "deverbative"
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        {
            "word": "verbal compound member"
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        {
            "word": "s-stem"
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        {
            "word": "Poetry"
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        {
            "word": "onomastics"
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        {
            "word": "archaic"
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            "first_name": "Elisa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Migliaretti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles",
            "department": "",
            "country": "United States"
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": "2025-11-19T05:46:00+01:00",
    "date_published": "2026-01-22T06:50:00+01:00",
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