In this work, we study the construction of the so-called “proleptic arguments” with the help of the morpho-syntactically annotated corpora known as treebanks. Although treebanks should be ideally suited to support corpus-based research on syntactic phenomena, the work is complicated by the controversial nature of the construction and the lack of specific guidelines for its annotation. As a result, “proleptic” arguments are neither consistently annotated nor easily retrievable in the available corpora. In the paper, we address two orders of questions: 1. can we retrieve the relevant passages from the current annotation? 2. Does the evidence offered by the treebanks improve our understanding of this Ancient Greek construction?
Mambrini, F., "Proleptic" Arguments in the Greek Treebanks, in De La Villa, J., Striano, A., Verano, R. (ed.), Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics, De Gruyter, Berlin 2025: <<TRENDS IN CLASSICS. GREEK AND LATIN LINGUISTICS>>, 795- 812. 10.1515/9783111648644-045 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/323396]
"Proleptic" Arguments in the Greek Treebanks
Mambrini, Francesco
Primo
2025
Abstract
In this work, we study the construction of the so-called “proleptic arguments” with the help of the morpho-syntactically annotated corpora known as treebanks. Although treebanks should be ideally suited to support corpus-based research on syntactic phenomena, the work is complicated by the controversial nature of the construction and the lack of specific guidelines for its annotation. As a result, “proleptic” arguments are neither consistently annotated nor easily retrievable in the available corpora. In the paper, we address two orders of questions: 1. can we retrieve the relevant passages from the current annotation? 2. Does the evidence offered by the treebanks improve our understanding of this Ancient Greek construction?
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