Giving Gifts and doing Favours

Victoria B. Fendel (D.Phil. Oxford, 2018) is a research associate at the University of Oxford, one of the editors of the Classics section of the Literary Encyclopedia, and language leader for Ancient Greek in the PARSEME initiative. Her research focusses on language contact (Oxford University Press, 2022) and multi-word expressions in literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources.

"This study is a well-rounded approach for those who wish to delve into the topic [of support-verb constructions] for the first time, and a necessary reference for researchers who wish to expand on their knowledge of SVCs."In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, by Lucía Madrigal Acero, 08 May 2026

• AcknowledgementsList of TablesList of FiguresAbbreviations1 Support-verb constructions: Past, present, and future1.1 Support-verb constructions1.2 The past: Research review1.3 Perspectives: Four controversies1.4 The present: Aims and objectives1.5 The future: Overview of chapters2 Methodology: Definition, data, identification, and discovery2.1 Corpus of Texts and Test Sample2.2 Definition2.3 The Ninox database2.4 Analysis tools3 Lexicon: Identification and discovery of support-verb-construction families3.1 Introduction3.2 Analysis3.3 Summary and conclusion4 Morphosyntax: Internal and external agreement with objects and negatives4.1 Introduction4.2 Analysis4.3 Summary and conclusion5 Semantics: Lexical words or grammatical syntagms with passives and inanimate subjects5.1 Introduction5.2 Analysis5.3 Summary and conclusion6 Discourse-pragmatics: Cohesion and coherence in relativisation and anaphora contexts6.1 Introduction6.2 Analysis6.3 Summary and conclusion7 Summary and Conclusion: A Framework for Support-Verb Constructions in Literary Classical Attic7.1 Summary: Support-verb constructions as an enrichment of the lexicon-grammar7.2 Conclusion I: Context and Co-text7.3 Conclusion II: Base-verb constructions, lexical gaps, and markedness7.4 Conclusion III: A framework of support-verb constructions7.5 Outlook: Support-verb constructions in the corpora of GreekAppendix 1: Identification of support-verb constructionsAppendix 2: Discovery of support-verb constructionsBibliographyIndex of passages discussedSubject index