Postclassical Greek: Contemporary Approaches Into Philology And Linguistics (trends In Linguistics. Studies And Monographs [tilsm] Book 335) (issn)

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 Postclassical Greek. An Overview 10 Section I: Grammatical Categories 28 Purpose and Result Clauses: ἵνα-hína and ὥστε-hōʹste in the Greek Documentary Papyri of the Roman Period 28 Syntactic Factors in the Greek Genitive- Dative Syncretism: The Contribution of New Testament Greek 48 Future Periphrases in John Malalas 80 Combining Linguistics, Paleography and Papyrology: The Use of the Prepositions eis, prós and epí in Greek Papyri 106 Future Forms in Postclassical Greek. Some Remarks on the Septuagint and the New Testament 120 Greek Infinitive-Retreat versus Grammaticalization: An Assessment 154 Postclassical Greek and Treebanks for a Diachronic Analysis 172 Section II: Sociolinguistic Aspects and Variation 214 The Perfect Paradigm in Theodosius’ Κανόνες: Diathetically Indifferent and Diathetically Non-Indifferent Forms 214 Forms of the Directive Speech Act: Evidence from Early Ptolemaic Papyri 230 What’s in a (personal) Name? Morphology and Identity in Jewish Greek Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods 254 Confusion of Mood or Phoneme? The Impact of L1 Phonology on Verb Semantics 292 Change in Grammatical and Lexical Structures in Postclassical Greek: Local Dialects and Supradialectal Tendencies 312 Index 346 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.
"This volume gathers together contributions on selected linguistic aspects of Postclassical Greek, as well as offering a general introduction to the language of this period. It aims at representing interdisciplinary research on Postclassical Greek from such subdisciplines as corpus analysis, papyrology and paleography, sociolinguistics, multilingualism and historical linguistics." --Back cover