Byzantine Colloquium and the Discovery of Palamism's Latin sources (L'Osservatore Romano English [2012]) (original) (raw)

2012, L'Osservatore Romano English

This article anticipates the discovery of Latin sources for several important Byzantine authors (particularly Palamite authors) via new research. The volume has just been published in NICOLAUS 40 (2013).

Byzantine Text Analysis. Textual and Linguistic Studies

‘Spiritual Meadow’ (Pratum Spirituale or Λειμών) written by Byzantine monk John Moschos (c. 550–619/34) is a very interesting text from the linguistic point of view, but unfortunately it lacks a good edition. This text is available now in J. P. Migne’s edition (Migne, 1857–1866, T. 87.3 = PG). Migne didn’t personally work on the numerous manuscripts, but simply compiled two earlier versions. In this paper I analyze alternative readings noted by Cotelier and as a result I beleive a thorough linguistic analysis of the ‘Spiritual Meadow’ can be performed even before some new critical edition appears.

2009: Discourse Markers in Early Byzantine Narrative Prose. In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 296-312, 2009.

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (10-11 May 2008, Thessaloniki). 1. vyd. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2009. pp. 296-312

The paper provides an analysis of the pragmatic function, frequency and variability of discourse markers (the so-called connective particles) in the Early Byzantine Chronicle of John Malalas (6th cent. A.D.). The areas of prime concern are the following ones: a) decrease in the variability of connective particles when compared to the Classical period works, b) changes in the range of interpretations of the relationship between discourse segments linked by the old connective particles when compared to the Classical period, c) usage of discourse markers newly formed in post-Classical period and their pragmatic function in the discourse structure of the Chronicle. Finally, the problem of Malalas's language register, as far as discourse marker analysis is concerned, is illustrated.

Georgios Akropolitis: theory and practice in later Byzantine historiography.

Though superficially using Atticising language, even the most careful writers of the later Byzantine era in fact employ ancient Greek morphology and lexicon to recharacterise the syntactic structures of the contemporary vernacular. This article examines the language of the historian Georgios Akropolitis (of the Palaeologan era), and analyses data from the domain of futurity and modality to illustrate the basic correctness of this proposition.

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