Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt
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- Joanne Vera Stolk (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Examples of case interchange in Greek papyri are often used to illustrate the start of dative case syncretism in Greek (Humbert 1930; Browning 1983; Horrocks 2010). On the other hand, case interchange can be caused by Egyptian scribes having difficulties with the Greek case system (Clarysse 1993; Vierros 2012). In this article, I combine quantitative analysis of the dative and genitive case interchanges in Greek documentary papyri with a qualitative examination of the social and linguistic contexts of the interchanges. This shows that whereas the usage of the dative instead of the genitive pronoun as adnominal possessor may be explained by indirect bilingual interference and scribal confusion, the replacement of the dative by the genitive as a third argument of a verb may have been caused by interference from the Greek spoken language in the writing of less educated scribes.
- Keywords
- Greek papyrology, Greek linguistics, dative case syncretism, language variation and change, Byzantine Egypt, historical sociolinguistics, Roman Egypt
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8135810
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. “Dative and Genitive Case Interchange in Greek Papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt.” GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE, vol. 93, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, pp. 182–212.
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- Stolk, J. V. (2017). Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt. GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE, 93, 182–212.
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. 2017. “Dative and Genitive Case Interchange in Greek Papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt.” GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE 93: 182–212.
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. 2017. “Dative and Genitive Case Interchange in Greek Papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt.” GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE 93: 182–212.
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- 1.Stolk JV. Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt. GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE. 2017;93:182–212.
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- [1]J. V. Stolk, “Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt,” GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE, vol. 93, pp. 182–212, 2017.
@article{8135810,
abstract = {{Examples of case interchange in Greek papyri are often used to
illustrate the start of dative case syncretism in Greek (Humbert 1930; Browning 1983; Horrocks 2010). On the other hand, case interchange can be caused by Egyptian scribes having difficulties with the Greek case system (Clarysse 1993; Vierros 2012). In this article, I combine quantitative analysis of the dative and genitive case interchanges in Greek documentary papyri with a qualitative examination of the social and linguistic contexts of the interchanges. This shows that whereas the usage of the dative instead of the genitive pronoun as adnominal possessor may be explained by indirect bilingual interference and scribal confusion, the replacement of the dative by the genitive as a third argument of a verb may have been caused by interference from the Greek spoken language in the writing of less educated scribes.}},
author = {{Stolk, Joanne Vera}},
issn = {{0017-1298}},
journal = {{GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE}},
keywords = {{Greek papyrology,Greek linguistics,dative case syncretism,language variation and change,Byzantine Egypt,historical sociolinguistics,Roman Egypt}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{182--212}},
publisher = {{Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht}},
title = {{Dative and genitive case interchange in Greek papyri from Roman-Byzantine Egypt}},
volume = {{93}},
year = {{2017}},
}