Relative complexity. A historical-sociolinguistic study of headed relative clauses in Greek documentary papyri (I-VIII AD) Ghent University
A lot of Greek papyri, i.e., a plant-based common writing surface in ancient times, have been discovered in the sands of Egypt. These papyri come in various types and belong to different eras. Among them, documentary papyri, i.e. non-literary papyri, include contracts, petitions and letters and were written by people of various social, educational and cultural background. In my project, drawing on data from a corpus of non-literary Greek ...