Publication details
Word Order Variation in John Malalas’ Chronicle
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Laetae segetes. Griechische und lateinische Studien an der Masaryk Universität und Universität Wien |
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| 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. |