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15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek

From the book Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

  • Staffan Wahlgren

Abstract

Linguistic variation in Byzantine literary Greek has normally been attributed to differing levels of education and competence, or stylistic choice. In this paper it is suggested that some variation may be due to discursive factors and communicational needs. A corpus taken from the Letters and the Chronicle of Symeon the Magistros and Logothete (X CE) is investigated, and variation with regard to the occurrence, and use, of verb forms, subordinating conjunctions and particles is discussed.

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