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Researcher

Klaas Bentein

Awards & Distinctions

137 Results

2025

Atticist syntax : prescriptive norms on the infinitival complementation of μέλλω

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

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

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Correctness in Comparison. Negotiating linguistic norms in Greek from the Imperial Roman until the Later Byzantine period (I – XV AD)

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

Epilogue : historical sociolinguistics and the classical languages

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Exploring frame-based approaches to everyday communication in antiquity

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Formulaic language (Medieval Greek)

Klaas BenteinKyriaki Giannikou

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Frames, framings and beyond : afterthoughts and other discoursal ‘add-ons’ in Greek private letter writing

Klaas BenteinMarianna Thoma

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

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

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

Language variation (Post-classical Greek)

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Mood and modality

Ezra la RoiKlaas Bentein

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Registerial hybridity in an Early Byzantine official archive : making a case for historical diaglossia?

Bookchapter in Correctness in comparison : negotiating linguistic norms in Greek from the Imperial Roman until the Later Byzantine period (I – XV AD)

Requests in the Qurra dossier : a cross-cultural pragmatic approach

Fokelien KootstraKlaas Bentein

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Seeing the (smaller and) bigger frame : framing Egyptian writers and documents through bilingual and biscriptal choices (4th – 8th c. AD)

Antonia Apostolakou

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

Socio-semiotic, multimodal annotation of documentary sources : digital infrastructure in the Everyday Writing project

Bookchapter in Digital papyrology III

Spacing out speech acts : textual units and their visual organisation in Greek letters on papyrus

Klaas BenteinMarta Capano

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

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

Tense and aspect from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Greek

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

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 influence of Atticism on non-literary papyri : the case of θᾶττον

Bookchapter in Everyday communication in Antiquity : frames and framings

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

Verbal system (Hellenistic)

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

2024

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Klaas BenteinEleonora Cattafi

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Decoding Byzantine book epigrams : an exploration of machine-assisted extraction of formulaic material

Kyriaki GiannikouColin SwaelensIlse De VosEls LefeverKlaas Bentein

Documentary papyri as ‘multimodal’ texts : aspects of variation in the Nepheros archive (IV CE)

Bookchapter in Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Koines, standards, and what’s behind them : capturing linguistic norms in Greek official writing

Bookchapter in Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

Latin epigraphy and the 'Vulgar' Latin vowel system (ca. 250 BCE - ca. 600 CE) : a qualitative, quantitative (and statistical) study based on the inscriptional sources of the city of Rome

Alessandro PapiniGiovanbattista GaldiKlaas Bentein

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Relative clauses

Klaas BenteinEleonora Cattafi

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Relative complexity : a historical-sociolinguistic study of relative clauses in Greek documentary papyri

Eleonora CattafiKlaas BenteinGiovanbattista GaldiMetin Bağrıaçık

Standardization

Klaas BenteinChiara Monaco

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics online

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of Greek language and linguistics

Klaas BenteinChiara Monaco

Bookchapter in Oxford bibliographies in classics

The power of judgement : a comparison of evaluative stance in the Atticist Lexica of Phrynichus and Moeris

Emmanuel RoumanisKlaas Bentein

A1 Journal Article in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE

Topic modeling Greek documentary papyri : a novel contribution to the field of digital papyrology

Klaas BenteinThomas Koentges

Viewing papyri through contact lenses : a socio-semiotic approach to bilingual and biscriptal papyri (IV-VIII CE)

Antonia ApostolakouKlaas BenteinYasmine AmoryMark Janse

Visually structuring text : a comparative multimodal analysis of the Greek and Arabic Qurra papyri

Klaas BenteinFokelien Kootstra

A2 Journal Article in SEGNO E TESTO

Writing to the authorities : a study on the materiality of official requests from Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynhcos

Serena CausoKlaas BenteinJean-Luc FournetYasmine Amory

Μέν in the Roman and Byzantine papyri : syntax, semantics and pragmatics

Bookchapter in Koine Greek and the evidence of documentary sources

2023

A typology of variations in the Ancient Greek epistolary frame (I–III AD)

Bookchapter in Classical philology and linguistics : old themes and new perspectives

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

Ezra la RoiKlaas BenteinRutger Allan

Language and varieties

Language contact

Loanwords in Greek

Subordination (including complementation)

The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams project : principles, challenges, opportunities

Rachele RicceriKlaas BenteinFloris BernardAntoon BronselaerEls De PaermentierPieterjan De PotterGuy De TréIlse De VosMaxime DeforcheKristoffel Demoen et al.

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF DATA MINING AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Why say goodbye twice? Repetition and involvement in the Greek epistolary frame (I-IV AD)

Bookchapter in La correspondance privée dans la Méditerranée antique : sociétés en miroir

2022

Co-subordination in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek

Introduction : developing a historical social-semiotic approach to communication practices in Antiquity

Klaas BenteinYasmine Amory

Bookchapter in Novel perspectives on communication practices in Antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach

Novel perspectives on communication practices in Antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach

The textualization of women’s letters from Roman Egypt : analyzing historical framing practices from a multi-modal point of view

Bookchapter in Novel perspectives on communication practices in Antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach

Visual signs of deference in Late Antique Greek letters on papyrus

Bookchapter in Novel perspectives on communication practices in Antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach

ΜΕΝ solitarium in non-literary papyri : a reconsideration

Ὀκτώ or ὀκτώι : reconsidering orthographic hypercorrection in Antiquity

Bookchapter in Novel perspectives on communication practices in Antiquity : towards a historical social-semiotic approach

2021

Byzantine metre from the margins : a corpus-based, pragmatic analysis of medieval book epigrams

Julie BoetenMark JanseKlaas BenteinIlse De Vos

Getting Involved with Greek Papyri

Latin tense and aspect in 3D : a corpus-based, systemic functional description of the narrative tenses in the language of Livy and Gregory of Tours

Simon AertsGiovanbattista GaldiMiriam TaverniersKlaas Bentein

The syntax of δέ in post-classical documentary texts

A1 Journal Article in ETUDES CLASSIQUES

γινώσκειν σε οὖν θέλω : causal particles and their semantic development in Post-classical Greek

2020

Back to the future : akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek)

Bookchapter in Varieties of post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Deictic shifting in Greek contractual writing (I-IV AD)

A1 Journal Article in PHILOLOGUS

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

A4 Journal Article in TETRADIO - UNIVERSITEIT GENT. GRIEKENLANDCENTRUM

Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI-XV CE) : the example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα

Bookchapter in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE)

Joanne Vera Stolk

Bookchapter in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Scribal repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)

The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek : linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE

Bookchapter in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek : novel questions and approaches

Klaas BenteinMark Janse

Bookchapter in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

2019

Brief van Besodorus aan Theophanes (P. Herm. 6)

Bookchapter in Parels in schrift : huldeboek voor Marc De Groote

Dimensions of social meaning in post-classical Greek towards an integrated approach

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt : outline of a new research programme

Klaas BenteinYasmine Amory

A2 Journal Article in COMPARATIVE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT STUDIES BULLETIN

Historical sociolinguistics : how and why? Some observations from Greek documentary papyri

A2 Journal Article in A.I.O.N. ANNALI DELL'ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE DI NAPOLI. DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI DEL MONDO CLASSICO E DEL MEDITERRANEO ANTICO. SEZIONE FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIA

Polly Lohmann : Graffiti als Interaktionsform

2018

Expressing lineage in Roman and Late Antique petitions and contracts : a variationist perspective

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF JURISTIC PAPYROLOGY

On the third type of headed relative clause in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek

Klaas BenteinMetin Bagriacik

A1 Journal Article in TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Social identity, social meaning, and the dynamics of everyday writing in Roman and Late Antique Egypt

A4 Journal Article in CHS REREARCH BULLETIN

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek : a case of diachronic ambiguity resolution?

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

2017

Early Greek Relative Clauses

Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek Towards a pragmatic restructuring of the complementation system?

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

Klaas BenteinMark JanseJorie Soltic

Bookchapter in Variation and change in Ancient Greek tense, aspect and modality

Politeness in pronouns : third-person reference in Byzantine documentary papyri

A1 Journal Article in PHILOLOGUS

Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects

Bookchapter in Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of Medieval Greek

Variation and change in Ancient Greek tense, aspect and modality

βλήμενος ἦν (Iliad 4.211): lexical or periphrastic?

Klaas BenteinMark Janse

A1 Journal Article in SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES

διά as a polysemous preposition in Early Byzantine Greek : ‘Dead ends’ and other uses in the Qurrah archive (VIII AD)

A1 Journal Article in SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES

2016

Aspectual choice and the presentation of narrative: an application to Herodotus' histories

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

Review: P. SARRIS, Byzantium: A very short introduction

Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek: have- and be- constructions

διό, διὰ τοῦτο, ὅθεν, τοίνυν, οὖν, or rather asyndeton? Inferential expressions and their social value in Greek official petitions (I – IV AD)

A1 Journal Article in ACTA CLASSICA

ἔγραψέ μοι γάρ ... τὰ νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι. οὖν and γάρ as inferential and elaborative discourse markers in Greek papyrus letters (I – IV AD)

A1 Journal Article in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE

2015

Aspectual choice with verba dicendi in Herodotus’ histories

A1 Journal Article in EMERITA

Minor complementation patterns in Post-classical Greek (I – VI AD): a socio-historical analysis of a corpus of documentary papyri

A1 Journal Article in SYMBOLAE OSLOENSES

Particle-usage in documentary papyri (I – IV AD): an integrated, sociolinguistically-informed approach

A1 Journal Article in GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES

The Greek documentary papyri as a linguistically heterogeneous corpus: the case of the katochoi of the Sarapeion-archive

A1 Journal Article in CLASSICAL WORLD

The Greek of the fathers

Bookchapter in The Wiley-Blackwell companion to patristics

2014

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics

Pronouns (demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative)

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics

Tense and aspect from Hellenistic to early Byzantine Greek

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics

2013

Adjectival periphrasis in Ancient Greek: a cognitive analysis

A1 Journal Article in ONOMAZEIN

Adjectival periphrasis in Ancient Greek: the categorial status of the participle

A1 Journal Article in ACTA CLASSICA

De opkomst van werkwoordelijke omschrijving met HEBBEN en ZIJN in het Oudgrieks

A2 Journal Article in HANDELINGEN : KONINKLIJKE ZUIDNEDERLANDSE MAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR TAAL-EN LETTERKUNDE EN GESCHIEDENIS

HAVE-perfects in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek

A1 Journal Article in EMERITA

L.M. Fields, An anonymous dialog with a Jew. Introduction, translation and notes. Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2012

Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle

A1 Journal Article in TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Register and the diachrony of Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek

A1 Journal Article in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE

S. Efthymiadis (ed.), The Ashgate research companion to Byzantine hagiography. Volume I: Periods and places. Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, 2011

The syntax of the periphrastic progressive in the Septuagint and the New Testament

A1 Journal Article in NOVUM TESTAMENTUM

Transitivity, ecology and the emergence of verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek

A1 Journal Article in CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

Verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: cognitive and diachronic studies: dissertation synopsis

2012

A cycle of book epigrams in honour of the four evangelists

Klaas BenteinFloris Bernard

A1 Journal Article in SCRIPTORIUM

A note on the order of clitic pronouns and particles in the Grottaferrata Digenis Akritis

Jorie SolticMark JanseKlaas Bentein

A1 Journal Article in BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

And the mass was praying outside: a note on Luke 1:10

Klaas BenteinMark JanseJorie Soltic

A2 Journal Article in NEOTESTAMENTICA

Clerics between desert and empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011

Perfect periphrases in post-classical and early Byzantine Greek : an ecological-evolutionary account

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

The periphrastic perfect in Ancient Greek: a diachronic mental space analysis

A1 Journal Article in TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The reader in eleventh-century book epigrams

Klaas BenteinKristoffel Demoen

Bookchapter in Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium

Verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: a state of the art

A1 Journal Article in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE

Verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: cognitive and diachronic studies

Klaas BenteinMark JanseWolfgang de Melo

2011

Ancient Greek and the category of verbal periphrasis

Eimi and the adjectival participle in ancient Greek

On the construction of HAVE with passive perfect participle in Greek and Latin

A4 Journal Article in ERANOS

Reconsidering the Ancient Greek periphrastic perfect: a cognitive and diachronic analysis

Review: E. Kessler, An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, CUP, 2010

Towards the identification of verbal periphrasis in Ancient Greek: a prototype analysis

A1 Journal Article in ACTA CLASSICA

2010

Erich Trapp & Sonja Schönauer (Ed.), Lexicologica byzantina : Beiträge zum Kolloquium zur Byzantinischen Lexikographie (Bonn, 13.-15. Juli 2007)

New testament book epigrams

Klaas BenteinFloris BernardKristoffel DemoenMarc De Groote

A1 Journal Article in BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

P. Bringel, Sophrone de Jérusalem. Panégyrique des saints Cyr et Jean. Réédition et traduction d’après de nouveaux manuscrits (Patrologia Orientalis, tome 51,1, n° 226), Turnhout, Brepols, 2008. ISBN 978-2-503-53176-2.

Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003 (Materiali Linguistici. Università di Pavia 38)

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF GREEK LINGUISTICS

2009

Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers. Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century

Klaas BenteinFloris BernardMarc De GrooteKristoffel Demoen

A1 Journal Article in GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES