Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system?
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- Klaas Bentein (UGent)
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- While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι being used as a ‘generic’ complementiser. In this article, I investigate to what extent Cristofaro’s (1996) claim of the pragmatic neutralisation of complementation patterns can be upheld, and whether it could be claimed that a new pragmatic opposition, in terms of ‘register’, is being established. For this purpose, I turn towards documentary papyri, a corpus which is particularly fruitful for socio-historical investigations.
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- register, Ancient Greek, diachrony, complementation, documentary papyri, factivity
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8131064
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- Bentein, Klaas. “Finite vs. Non-Finite Complementation in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a Pragmatic Restructuring of the Complementation System?” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, vol. 17, no. 1, 2017, pp. 3–36, doi:10.1163/15699846-01701002.
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- Bentein, K. (2017). Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system? JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, 17(1), 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01701002
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- Bentein, Klaas. 2017. “Finite vs. Non-Finite Complementation in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a Pragmatic Restructuring of the Complementation System?” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS 17 (1): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01701002.
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- 1.Bentein K. Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system? JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS. 2017;17(1):3–36.
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- [1]K. Bentein, “Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system?,” JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 3–36, 2017.
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abstract = {{While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι being used as a ‘generic’ complementiser. In this article, I investigate to what extent Cristofaro’s (1996) claim of the pragmatic neutralisation of complementation patterns can be upheld, and whether it could be claimed that a new pragmatic opposition, in terms of ‘register’, is being established. For this purpose, I turn towards documentary papyri, a corpus which is particularly fruitful for socio-historical investigations.}},
author = {{Bentein, Klaas}},
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journal = {{JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{3--36}},
title = {{Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system?}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01701002}},
volume = {{17}},
year = {{2017}},
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