Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Coptic Interference in the Greek Letters from Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed analysis of the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt that traces the bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 168mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780192869173
• ISBN-10: 0192869175
• Artikelnr.: 66142712

Autorenporträt

Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate studies in Classical civilisations in 2012 at the University of Basel, Switzerland, followed by an MA in Greek and Ancient Near East Studies in 2015. For both she held a scholarship by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Fendel then completed her DPhil in Classical languages and literature at the University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, for which she held a Clarendon scholarship (2015-2018). Fendel also completed an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (focusing on French linguistics) at the University of Cambridge, Peterhouse in 2019, for which she held an AHRC scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Setting the scene
1: Introduction
2: Concepts, contexts, corpora
3: The basics of Coptic grammar
4: The grammar of the corpus (standard and variation)
II. Analysis
5: Verb prases: the syntax of arguments
6: Adverbial phrases: the syntax of adjuncts
7: Discourse markers: The syntax of clause-linkage
8: Formulaic language: the syntax of the epistolary frame
9: Semi-formulaic phrases: the syntax of signposts and hedges
III. Contextualising Deviations
10: Summary and Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Appendix: corpus of texts