The diachrony of written language contact [electronic resource] : a contrastive approach / by Nikolaos Lavidas
- Author
- Lavidas, Nikolaos
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Physical Description
- xvii, 377 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Summary
- "Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the history of translation as related to grammatical changes in English and Greek in a contrastive way. In this respect, emphasis is placed on the analysis of diachronic retranslations: the book examines translations from earlier periods of English and Greek in relation to various grammatical characteristics of these languages in different periods and in comparison to non-translated texts"--
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- ISBN
- 9789004463752 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9789004503564 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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