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Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects

Klaas Bentein (UGent)
(2017) Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek. In Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 12. p.35-45
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Recent findings in sociolinguistics have greatly enhanced our understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change. In this paper, I discuss the possibility of applying a historical sociolinguistic approach to a corpus language such as Ancient Greek. In the first part of my paper, I address the question of exactly how to take into account the relationship between language and social context. I review a number of recently made proposals, and their applicability to Ancient Greek. In the second part of my paper, I argue for the benefits of one specific approach, the Systemic Functional framework, applying it to particle usage in letters and petitions from Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I – VIII ad).
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Ancient Greek, socio-historical linguistics

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Bentein, Klaas. “Towards a Socio-Historical Analysis of Ancient Greek? Some Problems and Prospects.” Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek, edited by Andrea Cuomo and Erich Trapp, vol. 12, Brepols, 2017, pp. 35–45, doi:10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114439.
APA
Bentein, K. (2017). Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects. In A. Cuomo & E. Trapp (Eds.), Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek (Vol. 12, pp. 35–45). https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114439
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Bentein, Klaas. 2017. “Towards a Socio-Historical Analysis of Ancient Greek? Some Problems and Prospects.” In Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek, edited by Andrea Cuomo and Erich Trapp, 12:35–45. Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114439.
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Bentein, Klaas. 2017. “Towards a Socio-Historical Analysis of Ancient Greek? Some Problems and Prospects.” In Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of Medieval Greek, ed by. Andrea Cuomo and Erich Trapp, 12:35–45. Turnhout: Brepols. doi:10.1484/M.SBHC-EB.5.114439.
Vancouver
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Bentein K. Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects. In: Cuomo A, Trapp E, editors. Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek. Turnhout: Brepols; 2017. p. 35–45.
IEEE
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K. Bentein, “Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects,” in Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek, vol. 12, A. Cuomo and E. Trapp, Eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, pp. 35–45.
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