Voordrachten: 'Lingua Graeca als lingua franca! De Griekse taal door de eeuwen heen'
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Linguistic diversity in the history of Ancient Greek is usually discussed with relationship to Classical Greek (the Classical dialects in particular), rather than Archaic or Post-classical Greek. In this contribution I discuss what role non-literary texts such as papyri can play for our knowledge of linguistic diversity in the Post-classical period. While these texts play a vital role for our understanding of the use and development of the Greek language, I argue that they are best not seen as a source for ‘authentic’, spoken-like Greek. As an alternative, I propose a ‘historical sociolinguistic’ approach, which takes into account that we are dealing with written, rather than spoken language, and that the papyrological corpus is linguistically not homogeneous.
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How to Cite: Bentein, K. (2020) “Grieks in Egypte: Niet-literaire teksten als bron voor historisch-sociolinguïstisch onderzoek”, Tetradio. 29(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91887