Nominal Compounds in Medieval Greek: Constantine Manasses’s Synopsis Chronike as a case study
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Compounding is a very productive word-formation process in Greek language. A number of studies and overviews have dealt with this linguistic phenomen in Ancient and Modern Greek. Little, however, has been written about compounding in Medieval Greek. Therefore, the present paper will provide a grammatical analysis of the nominal compounds attested in Constantine Manasses’s Synopsis Chronike (12th century). The classification of the nominal compounds will also be attempted. For the description of the compounds, morphosyntactic issues as A) the patterns of compounds on the basis of the lexical category of the immediate constituents; B) the morphological status of the immediate constituents of the compound, namely whether they constitute free or bound elements; C) the morphological structure of the compound which identifies the order of the determinant/modifier and determinantum/head elements inside the compound, will be discussed. |
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