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Relative complexity. A historical-sociolinguistic study of relative clauses in Greek documentary papyri (I-VIII AD)
Code
01CD8823
Duration
18 December 2023 → 17 April 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Historical linguistics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Syntax
Keywords
Greek documentary papyri Greek linguistics linguistic variation syntactic constructions Post-Classical Greek relative clauses linguistic complexity historical sociolinguistics Linguistics
 
Project description
 

The project aims to investigate relativization phenomena in Post-Classical Greek through a corpus of
Greek documentary papyri from Egypt constituted by letters, petitions and contracts from the first to
the eight century AD, exploring in particular the link between the linguistic variation and the
sociolinguistic distribution of relative clauses.