This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic
constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning
developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by
cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics its contributors
adopt in particular a 'constructional' approach that treats morphosyntactic constructions as
meaningful in and of themselves. Thus they are able to address the role of human cognitive
embodiment in determining the meanings of linguistic phenomena as diverse as verbal affixes
discourse particles prepositional phrases lexical items and tense semantics in both Greek
and Latin.
