Word Order Variation in John Malalas’ Chronicle

Authors

LOUDOVÁ Kateřina

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Laetae segetes. Griechische und lateinische Studien an der Masaryk Universität und Universität Wien
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords word order; clause-initial predicates; topic-function predicates
Description The article deals with the prevailing verb-subject word order in John Malalas’ Chronicle. The word order in the Chronicle seems to fully reflect the contemporary evolution of the postclassical Greek, which started in the Hellenistic period when the shift of the verb to the initial position in the clause is noticeable in documents written in low or middle style Greek. However, the prevailing initial position of the verb in Malalas’ Chronicle has to be explained in different ways, due to the fact that Malalas follows different principles: there are predicates-topics and predicates-focuses.

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