Project

Verbal periphrases in Greek: a typological and diachronic research from cognitive- linguistic perspective

Code

01D23409

Duration

01 October 2009 → 31 March 2015

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Mark Janse

Research disciplines

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),