Girl, you'll be a woman soon : grammatical versus semantic agreement of Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type

Janse, Mark

Girl, you'll be a woman soon : grammatical versus semantic agreement of Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type

Mark Janse (UGent)

(2023) Classical philology and linguistics : old themes and new perspectives. In Trends in Classics - Greek and Latin Linguistics 1. p.263-286

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Mark Janse (UGent)

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Department of Linguistics

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In this chapter I discuss cases in which grammatical agreement is overruled by semantic agreement, exemplified with Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type. After a brief overview of non-canonical genders in Greek, i.c. common and epicene, I discuss the case of hybrid nouns, i.e. nouns whose agreement varies according to the agreement target in accordance with Corbett’s Agreement Hierarchy. Just like the German neuter diminutive noun Mädchen, its Greek equivalent κοράσιον, as well as other diminutives referring to girls such as θυγάτριον and παιδίον, show different agreement patterns according to three parameters: distance, age and womanhood. The presentation includes a discussion of the age classes associated with other terms referring to girls, particularly παῖς and παρθένος and their Hebrew and Aramaic equivalents. The data are taken from New Testament and Septuagint Greek, but the conclusions are valid for other varieties of Greek as well.

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Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Septuagint, New Testament, Synoptic Gospels, Grammatical agreement, Semantic agreement, Hybrid nouns, Agreement hierarchy, Age classes

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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GWQ2Q3X7BX2QEMQGQQMBD9SX

MLA: Janse, Mark. “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon : Grammatical versus Semantic Agreement of Greek Hybrid Nouns of the Mädchen Type.” Classical Philology and Linguistics : Old Themes and New Perspectives, edited by Georgios K. Giannakis et al., vol. 1, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 263–86, doi:10.1515/9783111272887-011.
APA: Janse, M. (2023). Girl, you’ll be a woman soon : grammatical versus semantic agreement of Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type. In G. K. Giannakis, P. Filos, E. C. Güemes, & J. de la Villa (Eds.), Classical philology and linguistics : old themes and new perspectives (Vol. 1, pp. 263–286). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111272887-011
Chicago author-date: Janse, Mark. 2023. “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon : Grammatical versus Semantic Agreement of Greek Hybrid Nouns of the Mädchen Type.” In Classical Philology and Linguistics : Old Themes and New Perspectives, edited by Georgios K. Giannakis, Panagiotis Filos, Emilio Crespo Güemes, and Jesús de la Villa, 1:263–86. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111272887-011.
Chicago author-date (all authors): Janse, Mark. 2023. “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon : Grammatical versus Semantic Agreement of Greek Hybrid Nouns of the Mädchen Type.” In Classical Philology and Linguistics : Old Themes and New Perspectives, ed by. Georgios K. Giannakis, Panagiotis Filos, Emilio Crespo Güemes, and Jesús de la Villa, 1:263–286. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111272887-011.
Vancouver: 1.
Janse M. Girl, you’ll be a woman soon : grammatical versus semantic agreement of Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type. In: Giannakis GK, Filos P, Güemes EC, de la Villa J, editors. Classical philology and linguistics : old themes and new perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter; 2023. p. 263–86.
IEEE: [1]
M. Janse, “Girl, you’ll be a woman soon : grammatical versus semantic agreement of Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type,” in Classical philology and linguistics : old themes and new perspectives, vol. 1, G. K. Giannakis, P. Filos, E. C. Güemes, and J. de la Villa, Eds. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 263–286.

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