Klaas Bentein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klaas Bentein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klaas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bentein |
| SIGNATURE | BENTEIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2496-5678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Typology of Variations in the Ancient Greek Epistolary Frame (I–III AD)
Whereas scholarship has engaged in depth with the formulaic structure of non-literary texts such as private letters, less attention has been paid to the variations we can find to that fixed structure. In this contribution, I propose a framework to describe such variations, distinguishing between reformulations , additions , omissions , repetitions , combinations , and displacements . My discussion of these procedures will be embedded in an approa…
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various …
The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE was published in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek on page 381.
Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovati…
Deictic Shifting in Greek Contractual Writing (I–IV AD)
Much attention has been paid to ‘deictic shifts’ in Ancient Greek literary texts. In this article I show that similar phenomena can be found in documentary texts. Contracts in particular display unexpected shifts from the first to the third person or vice versa . Rather than constituting a narrative technique, I argue that such shifts should be related to the existence of two major types of stylization, called the ‘objective’ and the ‘subjective’…
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)
Article Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents) was published on October 1, 2020 in the journal Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (volume 6, issue 2)
Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek
Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical) Sociolinguistics and Functional Sociolinguistics, have emphasized the social relevance of language, focusing, for example, on linguistic concepts such as deixis, modality, or honorific language, or embedding la…
Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality
In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality. The contributors investigate key aspects such as the existence of and competition between linguistic variants, the value of modern linguistic theory for the study of linguistic variation, and the interplay between vario…
Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek
While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards the use of finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι being used as a ‘generic’ complementiser. In this…
Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek
This book deals with the use and development of ‘periphrastic’ constructions in Ancient Greek (VIII bc–VIII ad), focusing on constructions with the verbs ‘to be’ (εἰμί) and ‘to have’ (ἔχω), as in ἦν διδάσκων ‘he was teaching’ or ἔχω θαυμάσας ‘I have wondered’. While Ancient Greek is commonly considered a ‘synthetic’ language, already at the earliest stages we find traces of such multi-word periphrastic constructions, comparable to those occurring…
Ἔγραψέ μοι γάρ … τὰ νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι οὖν and γάρ as inferential and elaborative discourse markers in Greek papyrus letters (I – IV AD)
I analyse the use of the particles οὖν and γάρ in a corpus of documentary texts ranging from the first to the fourth century AD. I attempt to answer three main research questions: (i) with what frequency are οὖν and γάρ used; was one of these particles used more frequently than the other?; (ii) what are the functional/syntactic similarities and differences between the two particles; (iii) are there signs of functional development? My observations…
Aspectual Choice and the Presentation of Narrative An Application to Herodotus' Histories
In this article, I analyze how aspectual choice contributes to the presentation of Herodotus' narrative. I argue that the choice for the imperfect versus the aorist tense for foregrounded events brings about a 'perspectival effect' (de Jong van den Berg 2000): while the aorist conveys an 'external' perspective, the imperfect suggests an 'internal' perspective of a character witnessing the events. I show that such an internal perspective is partic…
Elección aspectual con υerba dicendi en las Historias de Heródoto
El presente estudio examina los factores que motivan la elección del aoristo vs. el imperfecto con υerba dicendi en griego antiguo. Sostengo que la dimensión textual desempeña un papel fundamental, y que conviene tomar en cuenta dos subdimensiones: (a) si el autor desea llamar la atención explícita sobre lo que se dice; (b) si se puede esperar una reacción por parte del hablante (y por extensión del lector). Estas observaciones se enmarcan dentro…
The Greek Documentary Papyri as a Linguistically Heterogeneous Corpus
While the Greek documentary papyri constitute a rich resource for linguistic innovation, they cannot be considered a linguistically homogeneous corpus. In this article, I show that even in a single archive, the “ katochoi of the Sarapeion” archive, considerable variation exists in terms of phonology/orthography, morphology, and syntax. I argue that the different types of documents contained in this archive—that is, dreams, letters and petitions—c…
Register and the diachrony of Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek
This article consists of three main parts. In the first part, I critically discuss two approaches to the diachronic study of Ancient Greek. I argue for the importance of not confining ourselves to spoken-like, ‘ authentic’ texts, but applying a comparative, register-based perspective. This perspective is illustrated in the second part, where I explore the relevance of Markopoulos’ (2009) ‘ sociolinguistic parameter of grammaticalization’ to the d…
Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek A state of the art
Le terme ‘ périphrase verbale’ est généralement utilisé pour désigner des constructions composées d’une forme verbale personnelle et impersonnelle. Ce status quaestionis met l’accent sur les constructions périphrastiques du grec ancien, en particulier sur celles formées avec un participe. Dans la première partie de l’article, j’esquisse à grands traits les recherches antérieures et je donne un aperçu des constructions qu’on appelle ‘ périphrastiq…
Perfect Periphrases in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek
I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs “be” (εἰμί) and “have” (ἔχω) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The approach adopted in this article builds on insights from recently developed …
Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni
I present here a detailed appraisal of Luisa Amenta's Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni (2003). Amenta's study on verbal periphrases is a revised version of her Ph. D. thesis (1999), completed at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Mancini. It off ers a diachronic and typological confrontation of periphrastic constructions in both Greek and Latin. I outline the co…
Perfect Periphrases in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek
I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs “be” (εἰμί) and “have” (ἔχω) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The approach adopted in this article builds on insights from recently developed …
Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek
Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical) Sociolinguistics and Functional Sociolinguistics, have emphasized the social relevance of language, focusing, for example, on linguistic concepts such as deixis, modality, or honorific language, or embedding la…
Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek
While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards the use of finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι being used as a ‘generic’ complementiser. In this…
Aspectual Choice and the Presentation of Narrative An Application to Herodotus' Histories
In this article, I analyze how aspectual choice contributes to the presentation of Herodotus' narrative. I argue that the choice for the imperfect versus the aorist tense for foregrounded events brings about a 'perspectival effect' (de Jong van den Berg 2000): while the aorist conveys an 'external' perspective, the imperfect suggests an 'internal' perspective of a character witnessing the events. I show that such an internal perspective is partic…
The Greek Documentary Papyri as a Linguistically Heterogeneous Corpus
While the Greek documentary papyri constitute a rich resource for linguistic innovation, they cannot be considered a linguistically homogeneous corpus. In this article, I show that even in a single archive, the “ katochoi of the Sarapeion” archive, considerable variation exists in terms of phonology/orthography, morphology, and syntax. I argue that the different types of documents contained in this archive—that is, dreams, letters and petitions—c…
Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni
I present here a detailed appraisal of Luisa Amenta's Perifrasi aspettuali in greco e in latino, Origini e grammaticalizzazioni (2003). Amenta's study on verbal periphrases is a revised version of her Ph. D. thesis (1999), completed at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Mancini. It off ers a diachronic and typological confrontation of periphrastic constructions in both Greek and Latin. I outline the co…
Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek A state of the art
Le terme ‘ périphrase verbale’ est généralement utilisé pour désigner des constructions composées d’une forme verbale personnelle et impersonnelle. Ce status quaestionis met l’accent sur les constructions périphrastiques du grec ancien, en particulier sur celles formées avec un participe. Dans la première partie de l’article, j’esquisse à grands traits les recherches antérieures et je donne un aperçu des constructions qu’on appelle ‘ périphrastiq…
Perfect Periphrases in Post-Classical and Early Byzantine Greek
I analyze the use and development of perfect periphrases with the verbs “be” (εἰμί) and “have” (ἔχω) in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek. While their importance has often been stressed in the context of the restructuring of the verbal system (more in particular the loss of the synthetic perfect), they have not received an in-depth, corpus-based treatment yet. The approach adopted in this article builds on insights from recently developed …
Register and the diachrony of Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek
This article consists of three main parts. In the first part, I critically discuss two approaches to the diachronic study of Ancient Greek. I argue for the importance of not confining ourselves to spoken-like, ‘ authentic’ texts, but applying a comparative, register-based perspective. This perspective is illustrated in the second part, where I explore the relevance of Markopoulos’ (2009) ‘ sociolinguistic parameter of grammaticalization’ to the d…
Elección aspectual con υerba dicendi en las Historias de Heródoto
El presente estudio examina los factores que motivan la elección del aoristo vs. el imperfecto con υerba dicendi en griego antiguo. Sostengo que la dimensión textual desempeña un papel fundamental, y que conviene tomar en cuenta dos subdimensiones: (a) si el autor desea llamar la atención explícita sobre lo que se dice; (b) si se puede esperar una reacción por parte del hablante (y por extensión del lector). Estas observaciones se enmarcan dentro…
The Greek Documentary Papyri as a Linguistically Heterogeneous Corpus
While the Greek documentary papyri constitute a rich resource for linguistic innovation, they cannot be considered a linguistically homogeneous corpus. In this article, I show that even in a single archive, the “ katochoi of the Sarapeion” archive, considerable variation exists in terms of phonology/orthography, morphology, and syntax. I argue that the different types of documents contained in this archive—that is, dreams, letters and petitions—c…
Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek
This book deals with the use and development of ‘periphrastic’ constructions in Ancient Greek (VIII bc–VIII ad), focusing on constructions with the verbs ‘to be’ (εἰμί) and ‘to have’ (ἔχω), as in ἦν διδάσκων ‘he was teaching’ or ἔχω θαυμάσας ‘I have wondered’. While Ancient Greek is commonly considered a ‘synthetic’ language, already at the earliest stages we find traces of such multi-word periphrastic constructions, comparable to those occurring…
Ἔγραψέ μοι γάρ … τὰ νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι οὖν and γάρ as inferential and elaborative discourse markers in Greek papyrus letters (I – IV AD)
I analyse the use of the particles οὖν and γάρ in a corpus of documentary texts ranging from the first to the fourth century AD. I attempt to answer three main research questions: (i) with what frequency are οὖν and γάρ used; was one of these particles used more frequently than the other?; (ii) what are the functional/syntactic similarities and differences between the two particles; (iii) are there signs of functional development? My observations…
Aspectual Choice and the Presentation of Narrative An Application to Herodotus' Histories
In this article, I analyze how aspectual choice contributes to the presentation of Herodotus' narrative. I argue that the choice for the imperfect versus the aorist tense for foregrounded events brings about a 'perspectival effect' (de Jong van den Berg 2000): while the aorist conveys an 'external' perspective, the imperfect suggests an 'internal' perspective of a character witnessing the events. I show that such an internal perspective is partic…
Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality
In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality. The contributors investigate key aspects such as the existence of and competition between linguistic variants, the value of modern linguistic theory for the study of linguistic variation, and the interplay between vario…
Finite vs. non-finite complementation in Post-classical and Early Byzantine Greek
While Classical Greek has a particularly rich complementation system, in later times there is a tendency towards the use of finite complementation. In this context, Cristofaro (1996) has claimed that the Classical opposition whereby the accusative and infinitive is used for non-factive complements, and ὅτι with the indicative and the accusative and participle for factive ones, is disappearing, ὅτι being used as a ‘generic’ complementiser. In this…
Dimensions of social meaning in Post-classical Greek
Especially in the first half of the twentieth century, language was viewed as a vehicle for the transmission of facts and ideas. Later on, scholars working in linguistic frameworks such as Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, (Historical) Sociolinguistics and Functional Sociolinguistics, have emphasized the social relevance of language, focusing, for example, on linguistic concepts such as deixis, modality, or honorific language, or embedding la…
The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE was published in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek on page 381.
Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek
Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovati…
Deictic Shifting in Greek Contractual Writing (I–IV AD)
Much attention has been paid to ‘deictic shifts’ in Ancient Greek literary texts. In this article I show that similar phenomena can be found in documentary texts. Contracts in particular display unexpected shifts from the first to the third person or vice versa . Rather than constituting a narrative technique, I argue that such shifts should be related to the existence of two major types of stylization, called the ‘objective’ and the ‘subjective’…
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents)
Article Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents) was published on October 1, 2020 in the journal Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics (volume 6, issue 2)
A Typology of Variations in the Ancient Greek Epistolary Frame (I–III AD)
Whereas scholarship has engaged in depth with the formulaic structure of non-literary texts such as private letters, less attention has been paid to the variations we can find to that fixed structure. In this contribution, I propose a framework to describe such variations, distinguishing between reformulations , additions , omissions , repetitions , combinations , and displacements . My discussion of these procedures will be embedded in an approa…
Novel Perspectives on Communication Practices in Antiquity
Documentary texts are vital to our understanding of many aspects of the ancient world, such as its administration, education, and economy. The value of these texts goes even further however: being autographs, they directly testify to ancient communication practices, a field of study which so far has remained underexplored. In this volume, specialists in the field engage with a broad range of documentary sources. They discuss not only how various …
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