Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt by Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt by Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of the phonology and lexicon of early Byzantine Greek in Egypt testify to this situation. In order to describe the linguistic traces that the language-contact situation left behind in individuals' linguistic output, Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt analyses the syntax of early Byzantine Greek texts from Egypt. The primary object of interest is bilingual interference in the syntax of verbs, adverbial phrases, clause linkage as well as in semi-formulaic expressions and formulaic frames. The study is based on a corpus of Greek and Coptic private letters on papyrus, which date from the fourth to mid-seventh centuries, originate from Egypt and belong to bilingual, Greek-Coptic, papyrus archives.

Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate studies in Classical civilisations in 2012 at the University of Basel, Switzerland, followed by an MA in Greek and Ancient Near East Studies in 2015. For both she held a scholarship by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Fendel then completed her DPhil in Classical languages and literature at the University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, for which she held a Clarendon scholarship (2015-2018). Fendel also completed an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (focusing on French linguistics) at the University of Cambridge, Peterhouse in 2019, for which she held an AHRC scholarship.

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ISBN 13	9780192869173
ISBN 10	0192869175
Title	Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt
Author	Victoria Beatrix Maria Fendel
Series	Oxford Classical Monographs
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2022-09-15
Number of pages	560
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