Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek: an ecological-evolutionary account
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- Klaas Bentein (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In this article, I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs “be” (εἰμί) and “have” (ἔχω) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The approach adopted in this article builds on insights from recently developed ecological-evolutionary models, which recognize the fact that language change is a two-step process, consisting of innovation and propagation, and that multiple ‘ecological’ factors influence the spread of a construction through the population (what I discuss in terms of ‘register’).
- Keywords
- perfect, register, Ancient Greek, periphrasis, diachrony, ecology
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2987519
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- Bentein, Klaas. 2012. “Perfect Periphrases in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek: An Ecological-evolutionary Account.” Journal of Greek Linguistics 12 (1): 205–275.
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- Bentein, K. (2012). Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek: an ecological-evolutionary account. JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, 12(1), 205–275.
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- 1.Bentein K. Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek: an ecological-evolutionary account. JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS. 2012;12(1):205–75.
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- Bentein, Klaas. “Perfect Periphrases in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek: An Ecological-evolutionary Account.” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS 12.1 (2012): 205–275. Print.
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author = {Bentein, Klaas},
issn = {1566-5844},
journal = {JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS},
keyword = {perfect,register,Ancient Greek,periphrasis,diachrony,ecology},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {205--275},
title = {Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek: an ecological-evolutionary account},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-00000002},
volume = {12},
year = {2012},
}
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