Publication details
A few notes on the language of John Malalas' Chronicle
| Title in English | A few notes on the lanuage of John Malalas' Chronicle |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, řada klasická N, Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
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| 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. |