The diachronic evolution of the Greek article-system consists of three basic steps:a. rise of the ‘definite’ article;b. rise of the ‘indefinite’ article;c. necessity for the ‘definite’ article to occur with proper names.On the grounds of a parametric description of DP, I suggest that b. and c. follow from the same abstract change, predicting their diachronic relation, and showing that formal analyses of grammatical variation can be successfully applied on historical issues.
Historical Change and Syntactic Theory. The Greek article / Guardiano, Cristina. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2009), pp. 1-1. (Intervento presentato al convegno 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 19). tenutosi a Nijmengen nel August 10-15, 2009).
Historical Change and Syntactic Theory. The Greek article
GUARDIANO, Cristina
2009
Abstract
The diachronic evolution of the Greek article-system consists of three basic steps:a. rise of the ‘definite’ article;b. rise of the ‘indefinite’ article;c. necessity for the ‘definite’ article to occur with proper names.On the grounds of a parametric description of DP, I suggest that b. and c. follow from the same abstract change, predicting their diachronic relation, and showing that formal analyses of grammatical variation can be successfully applied on historical issues.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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