A quantitative and typological study of Early Slavic participle clauses and their competition

Thesis

This thesis investigates the semantic and pragmatic properties of Early Slavic participle constructions (conjunct participles and dative absolutes) to understand the principles motivating their selection over one another and over their main finite competitor (jegda-clauses). The issue is tackled by adopting two broadly different approaches, which inform the division of the thesis into two parts.

The first part of the thesis uses detailed linguistic annotation on Early Slavic cor...

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Authors: Pedrazzini, N

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-8gv0b4qyo
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Old Church Slavonic; absolute constructions; conjunct participles; Ancient Greek; language typology; token-based typology; probabilistic semantic maps; Early Slavic; participle clauses; when-clauses; temporal subordinates
• Subjects: Pragmatics; Semantics; Temporal clauses; Temporal constructions; Corpora (Linguistics); Church Slavic language; Typology (Linguistics)