From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [(á½¹)ÏÎ¿Ï]

Kiki Nikiforidou

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ChapterÂ 8 From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [(á½¹)ÏÎ¿Ï]

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This chapter presents a fine-grained analysis of a grammatical change in the history of Greek, that of the marker (o)pu [(á½¹)ÏÎ¿Ï] âthatâ developing an adverbial connective function out of the earlier relativizer one, which took place in Medieval Greek. Drawing on corpus data and frequency-based entrenchment, I argue that a) the reanalysis in question depends on specific transitional contexts equally defined by syntactic and pragmatic parameters; as such, they are most appropriately analyzed as grammatical constructions, allowing for close tracking of all partial changes as well as of features that remain constant between the original and the later functions, b) these transitional constructions, which become entrenched in Medieval Greek and continue into Modern Greek along with the original relativizer and the (unambiguously) adverbial ones, support the functional unity (polysemy) of (o)pu[(á½¹)ÏÎ¿Ï], contested in the earlier literature. I specifically suggest that the grammatical polysemy associated with the marker should be analyzed as inhering in particular constructional contexts that receive empirical support both from the diachronic data and from synchronic ambiguity.

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Studying Language Change in the 21st Century

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Series:Â Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume: 16

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