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Ezra la Roi

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69 Results

2026

A layered approach to habitual constructions : typological generalizations

Hongmei FangEgbert FortuinRene GenisRiccardo GiomiSune GregersenKees HengeveldLois KempPaula KyselicaEzra la RoiHella Olbertz et al.

Bookchapter in A layered approach to habitual constructions

Contact-induced insubordination in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint and the New Testament

Ezra la RoiKlaas Bentein

Bookchapter in Postclassical Greek and cultural identity in the Septuagint : in memoriam : James K. Aitken (1968–2023)

Contextualizing counterfactual patterns in Post-Classical Greek texts : forms, functions and contexts

Bookchapter in What if? Counterfactual approaches to imperial and Byzantine literature

Grammars of the Medieval Greek language

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Habitual constructions in Ancient Greek

Bookchapter in A layered approach to habitual constructions

Holton and Manolessou, The Greek Language after Antiquity : Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics

Insubordinate hypothetical comparison clauses from Latin to Spanish : quasi to como si

Bookchapter in Pathways of insubordination

Insubordination

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Insubordination pathways in three millennia of Greek : sources, analogical changes and pragmatic enrichment

Bookchapter in Pathways of insubordination

Modal morphosyntax in the Septuagint within the history of Post-Classical Greek

Bookchapter in Postclassical Greek and cultural identity in the Septuagint : in memoriam : James K. Aitken (1968–2023)

Mood and modality

Ezra la RoiKlaas Bentein

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Mood and modality in Medieval Greek

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Orders (imperative/prohibitives)

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

The historical pragmatics of greetings in Post-Classical Greek

Bookchapter in Studies in Postclassical Greek : forms, structures and uses

The metaphorical pathways of performatives for intersubjective space : the evidence from Greek, Latin and Romance

Bookchapter in Conceptual metaphors in Ancient Indo-European languages : comparative perspectives

2025

Aspect, actionality and pragmatics in the life cycles of counterfactual conditionals : the evidence from Ancient Greek diachrony (VIII – I BCE)

Bookchapter in Tense and aspect in counterfactuals

Atticist syntax : prescriptive norms on the infinitival complementation of μέλλω

Bookchapter in Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

Between dialogic and diachronic syntax : the insubordination of directive ὅπως in Classical Greek drama

Bookchapter in Conversation analysis and classics : talk-in-interaction in Greek and Latin literature

Connecting intersubjectivity, politeness and stance with wishes in the Post-Classical Greek papyri

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Correlating morphosyntactic stability, change, register and context of use in Post-Classical Greek : the case of insubordinate wishes

Bookchapter in Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

Dangling between diachrony, register and atticism : a language ecology approach to modal morphosyntax in Post-Classical Greek

Doric features in Hellenistic inscribed epigrams : unveiling supra-regional and regional prestige in dialectal change

Dalia Pratali Maffei

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Epilogue : historical sociolinguistics and the classical languages

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Going nominal : the Ancient Greek articular infinitive between syntax and context

Bookchapter in Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

Pathways of subjectification and intersubjectification

Bookchapter in Reference module in social sciences

Purist norms and language change : ideological approaches and changes from above

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Rewriting the history of the optative in the postclassical Greek papyri and literary texts (III BCE - VI CE) : persistence, formulae, and innovation

Bookchapter in Rays of language : linguistic perspectives on non-literary papyri and related sources

Sources and methods for detecting language change from above and below in Post-Classical Greek and Latin

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

L. C. ContiEzra la RoiCostas Canakis

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

The accessibility hierarchy in Post-Classical Greek between syntax and sociolinguistics

Eleonora Cattafi

Bookchapter in Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

The counterfactual life cycle : cyclicity, pragmatics, and modality

Bookchapter in Cyclic change in grammar and discourse

The intersubjectification of vision as interactional thought : vision imperatives in Ancient Greek diachrony

Bookchapter in Verbs of thought and speech : pragmaticalization paths across languages

The life cycles of counterfactuals from Latin to Romance : moods, modal verbs and their diachronies

A2 Journal Article in LINGUARUM VARIETAS

The life cycles of counterfactuals in the history of Greek : aspect, modality and typology

Unraveling Post-classical (in)subordination : from syntax to context

Klaas BenteinEleonora CattafiEzra la Roi

Bookchapter in Subordination and insubordination in Post-Classical Greek : from syntax to context

Van smeken naar ‘alsjeblieft’ in het Oudgrieks : de historische pragmatiek van performatieve taalhandelingen

A2 Journal Article in LAMPAS (ZWOLLE)

2024

Christopher Fresch, Discourse markers in early Koine Greek : cognitive-functional analysis and LXX translation technique

Counterfactuals

Ezra la RoiSimeon Tsolakidis

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Peter Arzt-Grabner, Letters and letter writing

Polarity reversal constructions and counterfactuals in Ancient Greek : between implicature and conventionalization

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

The impact of Insubordination on the history of Greek : cross-linguistic connections, morphosyntactic innovations and pragmatic spread in the modal system

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

The life cycles of counterfactual modal verbs in Ancient Greek : temporal reference shift, language ecology, and analogy

A1 Journal Article in CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

The life cycles of counterfactual mood in early Indo-European languages

A1 Journal Article in INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN

Unpacking the norms of Atticism : impersonal modality and the negotiation of overt prestige in Atticist lexicographers

Ezra la RoiEmmanuel Roumanis

A2 Journal Article in GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA

2023

A pragmatic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction and mood (a)symmetry from Archaic to Classical Greek

Bookchapter in Building modality with syntax : focus on Ancient Greek

Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek : pragmatics, life cycles and connected pathways

Ezra la RoiKlaas BenteinRutger Allan

Down the paths to the past habitual : its historical connections with counterfactual pasts, future in the pasts, iteratives and lexical sources in Ancient Greek

A1 Journal Article in FOLIA LINGUISTICA

Luis Unceta Gómez, Łukasz Berger, Politeness in ancient Greek and Latin

2022

Co-subordination in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek

Insubordination in Archaic and Classical Latin : commands, requests, wishes and assertives

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF LATIN LINGUISTICS

Interlocked life cycles of counterfactual mood forms from Archaic to Classical Greek : aspect, actionality and changing temporal reference

A1 Journal Article in INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN

The Atticist lexica as metalinguistic resource for morphosyntactic change in Post-Classical Greek

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

The pragmatics of the past : a novel typology of conditionals with past tenses in Ancient Greek

A1 Journal Article in LISTY FILOLOGICKE

The secondary interjections εἶεν and εἶἑν as fossilized wish optatives : a conversation analysis approach

A1 Journal Article in EMERITA

Towards a chronology of the modal particles : the diachronic spread in the Ancient Greek mood system

A2 Journal Article in GRAECO-LATINA BRUNENSIA

Weaving together the diverse threads of category change : intersubjective ἀμέλει ‘of course’ and imperative particles in Ancient Greek

A1 Journal Article in DIACHRONICA

2021

The insubordination of if- and that-clauses from archaic to post-classical Greek : a diachronic constructional typology

A1 Journal Article in SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES

2020

'Geleende pluimen' : Grieks en Latijn in vertaling door de eeuwen heen

Berenice Verhelst

A4 Journal Article in TETRADIO - UNIVERSITEIT GENT. GRIEKENLANDCENTRUM

A rephilologized diachronic analysis of 'Post-Classical Greek' : pitfalls and principles for progress

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

Atticist lexica and Modern Greek dictionaries : a brief comparison of (negative) lexicographical labelling

Emmanuel Roumanis

A4 Journal Article in TETRADIO - UNIVERSITEIT GENT. GRIEKENLANDCENTRUM

Grieks in Egypte : niet-literaire teksten als bron voor historisch-sociolinguïstisch onderzoek

A4 Journal Article in TETRADIO - UNIVERSITEIT GENT. GRIEKENLANDCENTRUM

Habitual auxiliaries in Ancient Greek : grammaticalization and diachronic collocation shifts

A1 Journal Article in INDOGERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN

The development of εὑρίσκω ‘find’ as evidence towards a diachronic solution of the matching-problem in Ancient Greek complementation

A2 Journal Article in PHILOLOGIA CLASSICA

The variation of Classical Greek wishes : a functional discourse grammar and common ground approach

A1 Journal Article in GLOTTA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GRIECHISCHE UND LATEINISCHE SPRACHE

2019

Epistemic modality, particles and the potential optative in Classical Greek

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

2018

Paradigmatic possibilities as perspective for absolute constructions exploring linguistic differences and similarities of the Greek genitive and Latin ablative absolute

Mike KruijerEzra la Roi

A1 Journal Article in MNEMOSYNE

Shifting responsibilities : Thucydides on losing to Brasidas

Bookchapter in Conflicts in antiquity : textual and material perspectives