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Measuring the Greek Infinitive through time
Research Area:  
Other topics in Linguistics
Type:  
In Proceedings
Year: | 2012 | ||||
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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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