The Diachrony of Written Language Contact

A Contrastive Approach

• Author(s): Nikolaos Lavidas,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 396
• ISBN_10: 9004503560
  ISBN_13: 9789004503564
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics ,

Description:... 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.