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Date: 28-Sep-2011
From: Petros Karatsareas [pk299 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: A Study of Cappadocian Greek Nominal Morphology from a Diachronic and Dialectological Perspective


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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:06:07
From: Petros Karatsareas [pk299 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: A Study of Cappadocian Greek Nominal Morphology from a Diachronic and Dialectological Perspective

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Institution: University of Cambridge 
Program: PhD in Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2011 

Author: Petros Karatsareas

Dissertation Title: A Study of Cappadocian Greek Nominal Morphology from a
Diachronic and Dialectological Perspective 

Dissertation URL:  http://cambridge.academia.edu/karatsareas/Papers

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology

Subject Language(s): Greek, Cappadocian (cpg)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Dissertation Director(s):
Bert Vaux

Dissertation Abstract:

In this dissertation, I investigate a number of interrelated developments affecting 
the morphosyntax of nouns in Cappadocian Greek. I specifically focus on the 
development of differential object marking, the loss of grammatical gender 
distinctions, and the neuterisation of noun inflection. My aim is to provide a 
diachronic account of the innovations that Cappadocian has undergone in the 
three domains mentioned above. Αll the innovations examined in this study have 
the effect of rendering the morphology and syntax of nouns in Cappadocian more 
like that of neuters. On account of the historical and sociolinguistic 
circumstances in which Cappadocian developed as well as of the superficial 
similarity of their outcomes to equivalent structures in Turkish, previous research 
has overwhelmingly treated the Cappadocian developments as instances of 
contact-induced change that resulted from the influence of Turkish. In this study, 
I examine the Cappadocian innovations from a language-internal point of view 
and in comparison with parallel developments attested in the other Modern 
Greek dialects of Asia Minor, namely Pontic, Rumeic, Pharasiot and Silliot. My 
comparative analysis of a wide range of dialect-internal, cross-dialectal and 
cross-linguistic typological evidence shows that language contact with Turkish 
can be identified as the main cause of change only in the case of differential 
object marking. On the other hand, with respect to the origins of the most 
pervasive innovations in gender and noun inflection, I argue that they go back to 
the common linguistic ancestor of the modern Asia Minor Greek dialects and do 
not owe their development to language contact with Turkish. I show in detail that 
the superficial similarity of these latter innovations' outcomes to their Turkish 
equivalents in each case represents the final stage in a long series of 
typologically plausible, language-internal developments whose early 
manifestations predate the intensification of Cappadocian-Turkish linguistic and 
cultural exchange. These findings show that diachronic change in Cappadocian 
is best understood when examined within a larger Asia Minor Greek context. On 
the whole, they make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the history of 
Cappadocian and the Asia Minor Greek dialects as well as to Modern Greek 
dialectology more generally, and open a fresh round of discussion on the origin 
and development of other innovations attested in these dialects that are 
considered by historical linguists and Modern Greek dialectologists to be 
untypically Greek or contact-induced or both. 





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