Diachrony of Written Language Contact

Nikolaos Lavidas is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Language and Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests lie in the areas of language change, historical linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structure, (historical) language contact and historical corpora.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesPart 1 Written Language Contact and Grammatical Change in English and Greek1 Written Language Contact and Translations1.1 Terminology of Language Contact1.2 Written Language ContactAcknowledgements2 Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change: Landmarks in the Development of Early Translations2.1 Early History of Translations and Grammatical Change in English2.2 Greek in Written Contact: History of Early Translations3 Biblical Translations3.1 The Corpus of Biblical Translations: Source of Evidence of Grammatical Change3.2 Biblical Translations as Factor of Grammatical Change3.3 English Biblical Translations: Examples of Corpus-Based Surveys4 Intralingual Translations: Two Directions—to the Past or to the Present4.1 Introduction4.2 Intralingual Translations as Evidence of Grammatical Change4.3 Types of Greek Intralingual Translations4.4 Retranslations and Their Relation to Intralingual Translations5 Examples of Studies on Grammatical Change in English through Translations5.1 Translations and Multilingualism in the History of English5.2 Grammatical Characteristics and the Effect of Other Languages in the Diachrony of English6 From Syntactic Diglossia and Universal Bilingualism to What Diachronic Translations Can Tell Us about Grammatical Multiglossia6.1 A Theoretical Proposal: Grammatical Multiglossia6.2 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia, L2 and Bilingualism6.3 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia and Ferguson’s Diglossia6.4 Historical Grammatical Multiglossia as Related to (Seminatural ChangePart 2 Data: English and Greek Translations and Grammatical Change7 English Data7.1 Voice, Argument Structure and Transitivity in English Biblical Diachronic Retranslations7.2 Voice and Transitivity in English Diachronic Biblical vs. Non-biblical Translations7.3 English Biblical vs. Non-biblical Diachronic Retranslations: Borrowing of Word-Formation Morphology8 Greek Data8.1 Greek Diachronic Retranslations of the New Testament: Voice and Argument Structure8.2 Greek Diachronic Retranslations: Phrase Matching Approach8.3 Greek vs. English Data: An Approach to the Diachrony of Written Language Contact9 ConclusionAppendix 1: Further Information on the Texts of the Corpus (I–II)Appendix 2: (i) The Corpus of Translations of Biblical Texts; (ii) The Corpus of Translations of Boethius’ De Consolatione PhilosophiaeReferencesIndex