Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt

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Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Classics, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Classics, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)

Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt

Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Classics, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Classics, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
23 February 2023

Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax; Writing systems, alphabets; Classical history & classical civilisation

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

By: Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Faculty of Classics Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Faculty of Classics Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192869173
ISBN 10: 0192869175
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 23 February 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

I. Setting the scene 1: Introduction 2: Concepts, contexts, corpora 3: The basics of Coptic grammar 4: The grammar of the corpus (standard & 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

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.