The Distribution of Object Clitics in Koiné Greek
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It has long been recognized that pronominal clitics in Greek show a progression over time away from the fairly strict adherence to Wackernagel’s position found in Homeric Greek (8th century BC). Indeed, Wackernagel himself comments on this fact (Wackernagel 1892). It is not at all clear, however, how to characterize the post-Homeric situation. Past attempts to address this question (e.g., Dover 1968, Dunn 1988) generally speak in rather vague terms about “tendencies” for the clitic to appear in this or that position. This approach, however, while it serves to highlight individually some of the more recognizable positions, doesn’t give any account of their overall distribution or address the question of how the positions are related to one another and to the structure of the language as a whole. This paper is a first attempt to provide a systematic description of the distribution of object clitics in the Koiné period (particularly the first three centuries AD) and to account for their distribution in terms of what we already know about the syntax and prosody of this stage of the language.
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