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Dialectal Convergence
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Abstract Dialectal convergence is the gradual process of mutual accommodation and leveling as observed in the regional and social Greek dialects before the development of the new variety of Greek which was called ‘Koine’. Extralinguistic factors (geographic, political, economic, social and cultural) provided an impulse for this convergence in most cases. The mutual processes consist in the leveling of salient features of the source dialect and in the borrowing from the target dialect. Mixing and …
Date:
2013-11-01
Elean (and Olympia)
(5,760 words)
Abstract Elean is a Doric dialect akin to dialects of north-western Greece, particularly as evidenced by its nominal and verbal morphology. Exclusive Eleisms are mostly phonetic: the vocalic system has 6 long vowels, with open vowels prevailing over the closed, as well as consonantal stops weakened by spirantization and vanishing spirants. In the most ancient legal texts, one syntactic feature is an exclusive and quite paradoxical Eleism: the potential optative is used in the apodosis as well as …
Date:
2014-01-22
