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  • Klaas Bentein und Mark Janse
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Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
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Abstract

This chapter draws attention to the importance of studying not only linguistic variation in language, but also the patterned heterogeneity that can be related to it - in other words, linguistic varieties. Whereas the presence of varieties such as foreigner talk, female speech, colloquial language, etc. in the Classical period has received considerable attention, much less work has been done on the Post-classical and Byzantine periods, a situation which this edited volume hopes to remedy. Before outlining the contributions to the volume, we address a couple of central theoretical questions to research on linguistic varieties, such as the relationship between concepts like ‘variant’, ‘variety’ and ‘variation’, the modeling of varieties in terms of a ‘variational space’, the relationship between varieties, and the different methodologies that can be adopted to study linguistic varieties.

Abstract

This chapter draws attention to the importance of studying not only linguistic variation in language, but also the patterned heterogeneity that can be related to it - in other words, linguistic varieties. Whereas the presence of varieties such as foreigner talk, female speech, colloquial language, etc. in the Classical period has received considerable attention, much less work has been done on the Post-classical and Byzantine periods, a situation which this edited volume hopes to remedy. Before outlining the contributions to the volume, we address a couple of central theoretical questions to research on linguistic varieties, such as the relationship between concepts like ‘variant’, ‘variety’ and ‘variation’, the modeling of varieties in terms of a ‘variational space’, the relationship between varieties, and the different methodologies that can be adopted to study linguistic varieties.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of contributors XI
  5. The Greek Alphabet XV
  6. List of abbreviations XVII
  7. 1 Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Novel questions and approaches 1
  8. Part I: VARIETIES OF POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  9. 2 Tracking down lects in Roman Egypt 17
  10. 3 Idiolect in focus: Two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion (II BCE) 39
  11. 4 Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters: A case study of six Byzantine letters written in an ecclesiastical context (VI–VII CE) 75
  12. 5 Greek in Egypt or Egyptian Greek? Syntactic regionalisms (IV CE) 115
  13. 6 In search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt 141
  14. 7 Byzantine literature in “classicised” genres: Some grammatical realities (V–XIV CE) 163
  15. 8 From highly classicizing to common prose (XIII–XIV CE): The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates’ History 179
  16. 9 Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek) 201
  17. Part II: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION IN POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  18. 10 Tense variation in Ptolemaic papyri: Towards a grammar of epistolary dialogue 243
  19. 11 The Classical norm and varieties of Post-classical Greek: Expressions of anteriority and posteriority in a corpus of official documents (I–II CE) 265
  20. 12 Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE–800 CE) 299
  21. 13 The Greek phonology of a tax collector in Egypt in the first century CE 327
  22. 14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα 353
  23. 15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek 369
  24. 16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE 381
  25. Index locorum 415
  26. Index nominum 423
  27. Index rerum 425
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614404-001

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of contributors XI
  5. The Greek Alphabet XV
  6. List of abbreviations XVII
  7. 1 Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Novel questions and approaches 1
  8. Part I: VARIETIES OF POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  9. 2 Tracking down lects in Roman Egypt 17
  10. 3 Idiolect in focus: Two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion (II BCE) 39
  11. 4 Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters: A case study of six Byzantine letters written in an ecclesiastical context (VI–VII CE) 75
  12. 5 Greek in Egypt or Egyptian Greek? Syntactic regionalisms (IV CE) 115
  13. 6 In search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt 141
  14. 7 Byzantine literature in “classicised” genres: Some grammatical realities (V–XIV CE) 163
  15. 8 From highly classicizing to common prose (XIII–XIV CE): The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates’ History 179
  16. 9 Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek) 201
  17. Part II: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION IN POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  18. 10 Tense variation in Ptolemaic papyri: Towards a grammar of epistolary dialogue 243
  19. 11 The Classical norm and varieties of Post-classical Greek: Expressions of anteriority and posteriority in a corpus of official documents (I–II CE) 265
  20. 12 Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE–800 CE) 299
  21. 13 The Greek phonology of a tax collector in Egypt in the first century CE 327
  22. 14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα 353
  23. 15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek 369
  24. 16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE 381
  25. Index locorum 415
  26. Index nominum 423
  27. Index rerum 425
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