Code
01D07819
Duration
01 October 2019 → 01 November 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies not elsewhere classified
- Linguistics not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Counterfactual constructions
diachronic typology
grammaticalization
evolutionary cycles
Ancient Greek
diachronic conceptual space
semantic map
usage-based approach
context-sensitive evolutionary model
Common Ground
collocation patterns
Project description
This project analyses counterfactual constructions in the history of Ancient Greek (from 750BCE to 100CE). These counterfactuals are largely unstudied and more diverse in types than analysed before in linguistics. Previous research has yielded premature generalizations on the nature and evolution of counterfactuals. Therefore I will develop a quantifiable context-sensitive evolutionary model to provide an enriched diachronic typology of counterfactuals