Article outline

• 2.1Introduction
• 2.2Phonological and grammatical transciption: Caveats and apologia
• 2.3The Homeric text
• 2.4Pre-nominal prepositions in the Homeric text
  • 2.4.1Preamble
  • 2.4.2Examples of the use of individual pre-nominal prepositions
    • a. ana- ‘up’, ‘upward’
    • b. kata- ‘down’, ‘downward’
    • c. en(i)- ‘in’, ‘inside’, extended to ‘at’
    • d. ex-/ ek- ‘out(of)’, ‘from’, extended to agentive ‘by’
    • e. eis-, es-, ei- ‘to’
    • f. apo- ‘from’, ‘away from’
    • g. epi- ‘on’, ‘upon’, ‘over’
    • h. peri- ‘over’, ‘above’, ‘about’, ‘around’
    • i. para- ‘by’, ‘next to’, ‘near’
    • j. pro(s)- ‘in front of’, ‘before’, ‘toward’, ‘to’, extended to ‘through/by/with’
    • k. dia- ‘through’
    • l. meta- ‘with’, ‘among’, ‘about’
    • m. sun- ‘with’ (associative)
    • n. ama- ‘with’
    • o. amfi(s)- ‘about’, ‘around’, ‘near’, extended to ‘with’
    • p. hupo- ‘under’, extended to agentive ‘by’
    • q. huper- ‘above’, ‘over’
    • r. anti(os)- ‘against’, ‘facing’, ‘across from’
• 2.5Quantitative text distribution
  • 2.5.1Functional-syntactic distribution of pre-nominal preposition
    • a.Pre-nominal prepositions used with intransitive verbs with an obligatory indirect object (either concrete or abstract)
    • b.Prenominal prepositions used with di-transitive verbs with an obligatory indirect object (either concrete or abstract)
    • c.Pre-nominal prepositions used with optional indirect objects regardless of verb-type
  • 2.5.2Pre-verbal (OV) vs. post-verbal (VO) prepositional phrases
  • 2.5.3Text frequency of nominal-attached vs. verb-attached prepositions
• 2.6Summary
• Notes
• Abbreviations of grammatical terms
• Appendix