Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek
Katerina Chatzopoulou
Nov 2018 · Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Book 32 · Oxford University Press
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This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from texts dating from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine, and Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative data from all stages of the language, from Homeric Greek to Standard Modern Greek. Katerina Chatzopoulou accounts for the contrast between the two complementary negators found in Greek, referred to as a NEG1 and NEG2, in terms of the latter's sensitivity to nonveridicality, and explains the asymmetry observed in the diachronic development of the Greek negator system. The volume also sets out a new interpretation of Jespersen's cycle, which abstracts away from the morphosyntactic and phonological properties of the phenomenon and proposes instead that it is best understood in semantic terms. This approach not only explains the patterns observed in Greek, but also those found in other languages that deviate from the traditional description of Jespersen's cycle.
About the author
Katerina Chatzopoulou is an Instructor in Linguistics at New York College in Thessaloniki and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests range from historical semantics and language change to evolutionary epistemology and the popularization of science. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2012 in the field of historical syntax and semantics, and her work has appeared in a variety of international journals and edited volumes.
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