The differences in Ancient Greek and Latin motion verbs as a way to understand the conceptualisation of reality in the two cultures

该项目旨在创建PREVNet，这是一个关于拉丁语和古希腊语中带前缀的运动动词的新的数字资源。PrevNet将包含关于动词及其在文本中的用法的详细语言信息。从比较的角度，分析拉丁语和古希腊语动词在语言属性上的差异，并将它们联系起来，加深我们对两种文化的理解。我将考虑大约公元前8世纪到公元8世纪之间的历史时期。介词是附着在动词基础上的介词或副词，位于介词之前。当一个动词基础拥有一个前置动词时，它就成为一个前置动词。例如，英语的Circum-Navigate是一个前置动词，由动词基本导航和前置Circum-组成，后者来自拉丁语的Circum-‘周围’。运动动词用来描述运动事件。我会考虑拉丁词基，如EO，Gradior‘go’，venio‘Come’，Navigo‘sail’，volo‘Fly’，以及古希腊语中的Eimi，Baino‘go’，erkhomai‘Come’，Pleo‘sail’，petomai‘Fly’。我将分析不同的运动领域(例如，陆地上的运动，水上的运动，天空中的运动)。PrevNet的创建将使我能够回答以下三个学科领域的研究问题：1.历史语言学--古希腊语和拉丁语前置移动动词的语义是如何受到它们的介词的影响的？其他特征--方面/动作性和空间关系--如何与句法结构和语义相互作用，以及这种变化是如何随着时间的推移而变化的？2.数字人文--什么方法框架最适合创建PREVNet，以便它结合语料库数据中的定量信息，并在未来可以扩展？3.文化史--古希腊语和拉丁语前置移动动词之间有什么不同？它们揭示了古地中海地区讲希腊语和讲拉丁语的社区之间的联系？

This project aims at creating PrevNet, a new digital resource on prefixed verbs of motion in Latin and Ancient Greek. PrevNetwill contain detailed linguistic information on verbs and their usage in the texts. In a comparative perspective, I will analyse differences in the linguistic properties of the verbs between Latin and Ancient Greek and connect them to deepen our understanding of the two cultures. I will consider the historical period included between the 8th century BCE and the 8th century AD, approximately. Preverbs are prepositions or adverbs which attach onto a verbal base, preceding it. When a verbal base possesses a preverb, it becomes a preverbed verb. For instance, the English circum-navigateis a preverbed verb, composed of the verbal base navigateand the preverbcircum-, which comes from Latin circum-'around'. Verbs of motion are devoted to the description of motion events. I will consider Latin verbal bases such as eo, gradior'go', venio'come', navigo'sail', volo'fly', and Ancient Greek counterparts such as eimi, baino'go', erkhomai'come', pleo'sail', petomai'fly'. I will analyse different areas of motion (e.g. motion on land, motion on water, motion in the sky).The creation of PrevNetwill allow me to answer the following research questions across three disciplinary fields 1.historical linguistics - how is the semantics of Ancient Greek and Latin preverbed motion verbs affected by their preverbs? How do other characteristics -aspect/actionality and spatial rela-tions -interact with syntactic structures and semantics, and how does this change over time?2.digitalhumanities - what methodological framework is most suitable to create PrevNet, so that it combines quantitative information from corpus data and can be extended in the future?3.cultural history - what differences occur between Ancient Greek and Latin preverbed motion verbs? What do they reveal about the contact between the Greek-speaking and the Latin-speak-ing communities in the ancient Mediterranean area?