Rewriting the history of the optative in the postclassical Greek papyri and literary texts (III BCE–VI CE): Persistence, formulae, and innovation
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Publisher:Helsinki University Press
By: Ezra la Roi
Table of contents
Introduction
Researching the language of the Greek papyri: Recent progress and the shape of the future
Iotacism in Egyptian Greek: Greek-internal development and transfer effect from Egyptian-Coptic
Spelling variation of technical terms in the Greek medical papyri
Remarks on Adams’ category ‘regional’ loanwords: Selected examples from Latin documentary papyri
Case inflection in the early Arabic papyri (643–750 CE)
Diminutives in the Greek papyri: A corpus-based investigation
Defining the infinite: The articular infinitive in the Greek documentary papyri
Rewriting the history of the optative in the postclassical Greek papyri and literary texts (III BCE–VI CE): Persistence, formulae, and innovation
Routes to insubordination in classical and postclassical Greek: ὅτι (and ἵνα) in the sentence and discourse grammar
Investigating the disclosure formula in non-literary papyri: Some observations on complement clauses
Communicating in high-register Greek in private papyrus letters of the Roman period of Egypt
Everyday occupations in Roman and Late Antique Egypt: ‘Metadata’ as data for the study of linguistic variation
A pragmatic and discourse analysis of the particle οὖν/oûn in documentary papyri
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PDF ISBN: 978-952-369-140-7 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-952-369-141-4 | Hardback ISBN: 978-952-369-139-1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-34
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 442
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