Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek: an ecological-evolutionary account Ghent University
In this article, I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs U+201CbeU+201D (U+03B5U+1F30U+03BCU+1F77) and U+201ChaveU+201D (U+1F14U+03C7U+03C9) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The ...