A contrastive analysis of the Homeric and Hesiodic augment, with special focus on Hesiod. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Historical Reconstruction 13, 2016, 33-128

While many investigations have been devoted to the use and absence of the augment in Homer, the Hesiodic data (Theogony and Works and Days – we leave out the pseudo-Hesiodic Shield of Herakles and the fragments of the Catalogue of Women) have not been researched as thoroughly. The current article attempts to fill that void by applying the findings made for Homer to Hesiod, and finds that most of the morphological, syntactic and semantic rules and constraints posited for Homer, are valid for Hesiod as well.