Code
01D23409
Duration
01 October 2009 → 31 March 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
language typology
greek language diachrony
greek early Christian literature
cognitive linguistics
verbal periphrase
Linguistics
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 known under the umbrella term " Cognitive Linguistics". The main objectives are: (1) definition and typology (2) description of the position in the verbal system (3) description of the use in context (pragmatics),