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Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2012
The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Wherea... more The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Whereas the language of the former is traditionally considered vernacular or even vulgar, the scribe of the Grottaferrata manuscript is said to employ an archaizing style. The frequent occurrence of clitic particles like delta epsilon, gamma alpha rho, mu epsilon nu and omicron upsilon nu is one of the more prominent archaizing features. In Ancient Greek, clitic particles and clitic pronouns tend to cluster together in second position in accordance with Wackernagel's Law. In this note, we examine the various distributional patterns of clitic particles co-occurring with clitic pronouns in the Grottaferrata manuscript. We argue that despite the occurrence of some apparently classical clusterings, the distribution of clitic pronouns and particles is clearly governed by contemporary rules
N RECENT YEARS linguists have shown an enormous interest in clitics, small words which have no ac... more N RECENT YEARS linguists have shown an enormous interest in clitics, small words which have no accent of their own and consequently have to 'lean'-κλίνω in Ancient Greek-on another word, a phonological 'host'. 1 If this phonological host is the following word, we call it a proclitic; if it selects a preceding word as host, it is an enclitic. In this paper we focus on (the phonological hosts of) the object clitic pronouns (OCPs) in Greek, viz. clitics whose grammatical function is the (in)direct object and whose syntactic host is the finite verb. In Ancient Greek, the OCPs have an enclitic nature, whereas Modern Greek OCPs are proclitic. Thus, the phonological nature of the OCPs must have altered in the period in between. Indeed, in the Medieval period a certain reanalysis has occurred: [X ← enclitic OCP + finite verb] becomes [X + proclitic OCP → finite verb]. 2 Horrocks, one of the pioneers in the study of Medieval Greek OCPs, has made an attempt to fill in this abs...
Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Mar 30, 2012
NEOTESTAMENTICA, 2012
Luke 1: 10 has been variously interpreted. In this note we argue that the verbal group èn proseu... more Luke 1: 10 has been variously interpreted. In this note we argue that the verbal group èn proseukhomenon must be considered periphrastic, while the construction at the same time has an existential-presentative character. The latter allows us to explain the ' ...
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2012
The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Wherea... more The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Whereas the language of the former is traditionally considered vernacular or even vulgar, the scribe of the Grottaferrata manuscript is said to employ an archaizing style. The frequent occurrence of clitic particles like delta epsilon, gamma alpha rho, mu epsilon nu and omicron upsilon nu is one of the more prominent archaizing features. In Ancient Greek, clitic particles and clitic pronouns tend to cluster together in second position in accordance with Wackernagel's Law. In this note, we examine the various distributional patterns of clitic particles co-occurring with clitic pronouns in the Grottaferrata manuscript. We argue that despite the occurrence of some apparently classical clusterings, the distribution of clitic pronouns and particles is clearly governed by contemporary rules
N RECENT YEARS linguists have shown an enormous interest in clitics, small words which have no ac... more N RECENT YEARS linguists have shown an enormous interest in clitics, small words which have no accent of their own and consequently have to 'lean'-κλίνω in Ancient Greek-on another word, a phonological 'host'. 1 If this phonological host is the following word, we call it a proclitic; if it selects a preceding word as host, it is an enclitic. In this paper we focus on (the phonological hosts of) the object clitic pronouns (OCPs) in Greek, viz. clitics whose grammatical function is the (in)direct object and whose syntactic host is the finite verb. In Ancient Greek, the OCPs have an enclitic nature, whereas Modern Greek OCPs are proclitic. Thus, the phonological nature of the OCPs must have altered in the period in between. Indeed, in the Medieval period a certain reanalysis has occurred: [X ← enclitic OCP + finite verb] becomes [X + proclitic OCP → finite verb]. 2 Horrocks, one of the pioneers in the study of Medieval Greek OCPs, has made an attempt to fill in this abs...
Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Mar 30, 2012
NEOTESTAMENTICA, 2012
Luke 1: 10 has been variously interpreted. In this note we argue that the verbal group èn proseu... more Luke 1: 10 has been variously interpreted. In this note we argue that the verbal group èn proseukhomenon must be considered periphrastic, while the construction at the same time has an existential-presentative character. The latter allows us to explain the ' ...