Project

Information structure in the Medieval Greek vernacular politikos stichos romances

Code
3F023112
Duration
01 October 2012 → 31 July 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
intonation unit information structure politikos stichos Medieval Greek oral discourse
 
Project description

I will investigate the language of the later Medieval Greek (12th-16th centuries) vernacular romances composed in metre of the politikos stichos within the modern framework of information structure (most important concept: intonation units), since these texts are assumed to adopt an oral discourse. Special attention will be paid to word order, particles, clitics, dislocations, parentheticals and discourse markers.