Postclassical Greek: Contemporary Approaches to Philology and Linguistics

Description

The language of Postclassical Greek is a somewhat neglected area of research despite the language of this period being well attested with a large number of different sorts of texts ranging from papyri and dialect inscriptions to literary texts by Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine writers. These texts offer an extensive amount of data and are rather understudied in comparison with texts of the Classical period. This volume aims to fill some of this void by offering an interdisciplinary approach to the language of the period. As such, it brings together contributions from disciplines including usage-based linguistics, theoretical syntax, historical linguistics, papyrology and palaeography, sociolinguistics and research on multilingualism. It is hoped, therefore, that the volume will appeal to a wide audience interested in exploring language development from several perspectives. Acknowledgements Contents Postclassical Greek. An Overview Section I: Grammatical Categories Purpose and Result Clauses: ἵνα-hína and ὥστε-hōʹste in the Greek Documentary Papyri of the Roman Period Syntactic Factors in the Greek Genitive- Dative Syncretism: The Contribution of New Testament Greek Future Periphrases in John Malalas Combining Linguistics, Paleography and Papyrology: The Use of the Prepositions eis, prós and epí in Greek Papyri Future Forms in Postclassical Greek. Some Remarks on the Septuagint and the New Testament Greek Infinitive-Retreat versus Grammaticalization: An Assessment Postclassical Greek and Treebanks for a Diachronic Analysis Section II: Sociolinguistic Aspects and Variation The Perfect Paradigm in Theodosius’ Κανόνες: Diathetically Indifferent and Diathetically Non-Indifferent Forms Forms of the Directive Speech Act: Evidence from Early Ptolemaic Papyri What’s in a (personal) Name? Morphology and Identity in Jewish Greek Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Confusion of Mood or Phoneme? The Impact of L1 Phonology on Verb Semantics Change in Grammatical and Lexical Structures in Postclassical Greek: Local Dialects and Supradialectal Tendencies Index