Case overlap in Medieval Cypriot Greek: A socio-historical perspective

Markopoulos, Theodore

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“…He provides some papyrological examples (Horrocks 2010:180;2007:628-629), but no further semantic explanation or evidence of how this reanalysis from adnominal genitive possessor to the genitive as benefactive/malefactive or 'ethical dative' verbal complement should have taken place and how it spread to other dative functions. Markopoulos (2010) suggests that a cognitive path connecting the beneficiary/indirect object with the domain of possession might explain the use of the accusative in genitive contexts through the association with the dative case in the replacement of the genitive plural by the accusative plural in Medieval Cypriot Greek. This presupposes a close cognitive relation of the genitive and dative case in earlier stages of the Greek language, such as in the Greek language from the RomanByzantine period.…”

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Dative by Genitive Replacement in the Greek Language of the Papyri: A Diachronic Account of Case Semantics

Stolk

2015

J Greek Linguist

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Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the patient of the predicate. When the event expressed by the predicate is patient-affecting, the possessor is indirectly also affected. Hence the semantic role of this affected alienable possessor might be interpreted as a benefactive or malefactive in genitive possession constructions. By semantic extension the meaning of the genitive case in this position is extended into goal-oriented roles, such as addressee and recipient, which are commonly denoted by the dative case in Ancient Greek. The semantic similarity of the genitive and dative cases in these constructions might have provided the basis for the merger of the cases in the Greek language.

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Dative by Genitive Replacement in the Greek Language of the Papyri: A Diachronic Account of Case Semantics

Stolk

2015

J Greek Linguist

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Storia e storie della lingua greca

Carpinato¹,

Tribulato²

2014

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High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek

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Mertyris²,

Sevdali

2022

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This paper deals with the distribution of the use of the accusative as an indirect object in two major dialect groups of Modern Greek, namely Northern Greek and Pontic Greek. The loss of the dative in Medieval Greek (c. 10th c. AD) resulted in the use of the genitive as an indirect object in the southern varieties and of the accusative in Northern Greek and Asia Minor Greek. As Standard Modern Greek employs the genitive, little attention has been paid to the distribution of the accusative, and our study was aimed to fill that gap by presenting data collected in Northern Greece from speakers of both dialect groups. According to our findings, the accusative is exclusively used in all syntactic domains inherited from the Ancient Greek dative in both dialect groups, but the two groups are kept apart in terms of the obligatoriness vs. optionality or lack of clitic doubling and availability vs. lack of “high” positions, e.g., for external possessors and ethical dative constructions.

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Case overlap in Medieval Cypriot Greek: A socio-historical perspective

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Dative by Genitive Replacement in the Greek Language of the Papyri: A Diachronic Account of Case Semantics

Dative by Genitive Replacement in the Greek Language of the Papyri: A Diachronic Account of Case Semantics

Storia e storie della lingua greca

High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek

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