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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri : a diachronic account of case semantics Ghent University
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the patient of the predicate. When the event expressed by the predicate is patient-affecting, the possessor is indirectly also affected. Hence the semantic role of this affected alienable possessor might ...
The intersubjectification of vision as interactional thought : vision imperatives in Ancient Greek diachrony Ghent University
The Κένταυρος Controversy revisited : an old etymological puzzle in a comparative-mythological perspective Ghent University
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 ...
Back to the future : akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek) Ghent University
Cappadocian is an East Asia Minor Greek variety most closely related to Pharasiot and Pontic. Having been cut off from the rest of the Greek-speaking world after the defeat of the Byzantine army by the Seljuk Turks in the battle at Manzikert (1071), Cappadocian was increasingly Turkicized, but the Greek component preserved its essentially Late Medieval reek character. Unfortunately, our evidence for the historical development of Cappadocian is ...
Understanding grammar at the community level requires a diachronic perspective. Evidence from four case studies KU Leuven
Structuralism and formal grammar have, in the course of the 20th century, rightfully taken issue with more vague and unfalsifiable just-so stories of some of their predecessors. For all its merits, though, the structuralist-formal strand of linguistics has its drawbacks as well. The classical Saussurean distinction between synchrony and diachrony can be harmful: a purely synchronic description is often inferior to the insight gained from ...
De sterke werkwoorden in het Nederlands. Een diachroon, kwantitatief onderzoek. KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to trace the diachronic development of the preterite morphology in Dutch from the early Middle Ages up until present-day Dutch. The primary focus is on the competition between (1) the so-called strong inflection (e.g. vaar - voer ('sail')), which is based on root apophony (Ablaut), and has developed from the Proto-Indo-European perfect (Mailhammer 2007), (2) the so- called weak inflection (e.g. vaar - vaarde), which ...
The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP KU Leuven
This article inquires into the diachrony of the determiner in Dutch. First, it is argued that the determiner is an emergent syntactic category, and that it must be consequently excluded from universal grammar. Second, it is argued that languages that do have a determiner slot in the NP differ considerably with regard to which lexemes they allow in this function. On the basis of these two observations, an in depth usage-based analysis of the ...