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Project

Verbal periphrases in Greek: a typological and diachronic research from cognitive- linguistic perspective.
Code
3G064909
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
greek language diachrony greek early Christian literature cognitive linguistics verbal periphrase language typology
 
Project description

This project researches the use of verbal periphrases in postclassical Greek, based on a corpus of early Christian biographical (narrative) texts. The project is embedded in the theory know under the umbrella term "cognitive Linguistics". The main objectives are: (1) definition and typology (2) description of the position of the verbal system (3) description of the use in context (pragmatics).