Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23159565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristina Guardiano (0000-0003-0997-0882, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 179-197 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Grammatical change (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582624.003.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2494767376 |
| ISBN | 9780199582624 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This chapter accounts for two changes that distinguish Modern Greek from Ancient (Classical and New Testament) Greek: the requirement in Modern Greek that proper names occur with a definite article, and the rise of an indefinite article. It argues that these two changes are related. In Ancient Greek, nominal expressions could receive a singular count interpretation with a null expletive D head. The rise of overt indefinite articles indicates that the feature count had come to be grammaticalized (that is, required spellout). Once this requirement was in place, a null expletive in D became generally unavailable, requiring that the overt determiner in D select a proper name.
Ancient Greek · Art · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Modern Greek · Null (SQL) · Parametric statistics · Statistics · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |