Typological comparison in the nominal domain. Articles and bare nouns across Ancient Greek

The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1. Description of syntactic patterns in ‘an- cient’ varieties. By means of the implementation of the theoretical tools provided by formal syn- tax, I will investigate a number of syntactic properties of nominal structures in Ancient Greek, showing that they fall within well-known crosslinguistic patterns, and that they obey the same constraints which act on ‘modern’ languages. 2. Analysis of diachronic change. Focusing on a number of (long-studied) phenomena, I will prompt minimal comparisons between successive diachronic stages, describing the development of the article-system as consisting of a series of successive micro-changes (formally ‘parameter resettings’) affecting the representation of par- ticular features in the main functional category of nominal structures: D.