Beyond affectedness – partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek

Abstract In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of accusative to encode second argument two-place verbs. Ancient Greek two types object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected degrees patient affectedness: encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends experiential which are typically characterized by a low degree transitivity do not imply any change state object-stimulus. Rather than concentrating on implications case construal object, I consider effects variation whole construction, argue that genitive vs. marking (NomGen NomAcc constructions) reflects subject-experiencer. While different experiencer terms control cross-linguistically often results non-nominative experiencer, it is affects scale based possible control. The distribution constructions verbs shows typical sight, thought, intellectual knowledge emotions sight awareness, such wonder fear. NomGen touch, smell, taste, memory, forgetfulness, care desire. in-between area, hearing, learning affection feature both encoding, thus constituting fuzzy transition area. connection between other an embodied conceptualization situations.