A few notes on the language of John Malalas' Chronicle

Title in English A few notes on the lanuage of John Malalas' Chronicle
Authors

LOUDOVÁ Kateřina

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, řada klasická N, Graeco-Latina Brunensia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords middle-style Greek; participle as finite verb
Description The article deals with the phenomenon of the "vulgarity" of John Malalas' Chronicle. Nearly automatic presumption of "vulgarity", which probably springs from the 19th century tradition built-up around texts of late Antiquity or early Byzantine Empire written in non-classicizing language, is misguiding. A closer view of some morfological, syntactic or stylistic phenomena implies that many of the elements which seem to be vulgar at first sight (e.g. participle in function of verbum finitum) must be reevaluated and that the Chronicle is rather a product of "middle" style Greek.

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