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The Accessibility Hierarchy in Post-Classical Greek between Syntax and Sociolinguistics

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Abstract

This article presents an application of the Accessibility Hierarchy (AH), first introduced by Keenan and Comrie on a typological basis, to Post-Classical Greek. In particular, taking into account a corpus of documentary papyri from Egypt, it analyses, on the one hand, the functions of relative clauses in the texts from a syntactic perspective, examining the attestations of relative clauses according to the AH in papyri and whether these follow the expectations of the hierarchy. On the other hand, the relationship of the AH with the sociolinguistic context is investigated, providing data on the types of texts where the simpler and more complex positions in the hierarchy are relativised and suggesting that reflexes of the AH are visible in sociolinguistic terms also in Post-Classical Greek papyri.

Abstract

This article presents an application of the Accessibility Hierarchy (AH), first introduced by Keenan and Comrie on a typological basis, to Post-Classical Greek. In particular, taking into account a corpus of documentary papyri from Egypt, it analyses, on the one hand, the functions of relative clauses in the texts from a syntactic perspective, examining the attestations of relative clauses according to the AH in papyri and whether these follow the expectations of the hierarchy. On the other hand, the relationship of the AH with the sociolinguistic context is investigated, providing data on the types of texts where the simpler and more complex positions in the hierarchy are relativised and suggesting that reflexes of the AH are visible in sociolinguistic terms also in Post-Classical Greek papyri.

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