Verbal Dvandvas in Modern Greek

While Greek is rich in compounds, one familiar type from Indo-European, namely dvandva compounds meaning 'X and Y', is essentially nonexistent in Ancient Greek. However, such compounds start occurring in post-Classical Greek and are fairly productive by early Modern Greek. The innovative dvandvas involve nouns, a type well attested elsewhere in Indo-European, but also verbs, such as aniγo-klino ‘I open and close’, a rarer and possibly unique type within Indo-European. We here place Modern Greek verbal dvandvas in the larger context of verbal combinations (ranging from true complementation to serialization), arguing that these are true compounds, created in the morphological component. We classify them by their morphology and their semantics and offer some remarks on their historical development.