The Diachrony of Written Language Contact: A Contrastive Approach

By Nikolaos Lavidas and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004463755
• ISBN13: 9789004463752
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"