Publication - Measuring the Greek Infinitive through time
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Measuring the Greek Infinitive through time

Research Area:  
Other topics in Linguistics
    
Type:  
In Proceedings

 

Year: 2012
Authors: Marina Vassiliou
Editor: Z. Gavriilidou, A. Efthymiou, E. Thomadaki; P. Kambakis-Vougiouklis
Book title: Selected papers of the 10th ICGL
Pages: 592-602
Address: Komotini, Greece
Date: September 1-4, 2011
ISBN: 978-960-99486-7-8
Abstract:
The current work consists in a series of statistical analyses of Greek infinitival structures, aiming at illustrating the syntactic behaviour of the Greek infinitive through time. Spanning the period 5 BC – AD 16, the specific structures are drawn from texts of various authors and divergent topics, being representative of the four synchronies of the Greek language. The text corpus employed exceeds 5 million words in size, within which the infinitival occurrences approximate 102,000. To the best of our knowledge, measurements of such scale are presented for the first time, allowing a diachronic study of the infinitive use supported by statistical tests.
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