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Postclassical Greek: Contemporary Approaches to Philology and Linguistics
 9783110677614, 311067761X, 9783110676723

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Contents
Postclassical Greek. An Overview
Section I: Grammatical Categories
Purpose and Result Clauses: ἵνα-hína and ὥστε-hōʹste in the Greek Documentary Papyri of the Roman Period
Syntactic Factors in the Greek Genitive- Dative Syncretism: The Contribution of New Testament Greek
Future Periphrases in John Malalas
Combining Linguistics, Paleography and Papyrology: The Use of the Prepositions eis, prós and epí in Greek Papyri
Future Forms in Postclassical Greek. Some Remarks on the Septuagint and the New Testament
Greek Infinitive-Retreat versus Grammaticalization: An Assessment
Postclassical Greek and Treebanks for a Diachronic Analysis
Section II: Sociolinguistic Aspects and Variation
The Perfect Paradigm in Theodosius’ Κανόνες: Diathetically Indifferent and Diathetically Non-Indifferent Forms
Forms of the Directive Speech Act: Evidence from Early Ptolemaic Papyri
What’s in a (personal) Name? Morphology and Identity in Jewish Greek Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Confusion of Mood or Phoneme? The Impact of L1 Phonology on Verb Semantics
Change in Grammatical and Lexical Structures in Postclassical Greek: Local Dialects and Supradialectal Tendencies
Index

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