TY - CONF
TI - The past perfect in Cypriot Greek Innovation because - or irrespective -
of contact?
AU - Tsiplakou, Stavroula
AU - Armostis, Spyros
AU - Bella, Spyridoula and
AU - Michelioudakis, Dimitris
AU - Moser, Amalia
PY - 2019
SP - 231-243
PB - JOHN BENJAMINS B V PUBL
T2 - LANGUAGE VARIATION - EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES VII
TODO - 10.1075/silv.22.15tsi
TODO - Cypriot Greek; contact; diglossia; Past Perfect; Standard Greek
TODO - The Cypriot Greek koine displays structural innovations, arguably as a
result of prolonged contact with Standard Greek (SG), the `11' variety
in the diglossic context of the Greek Cypriot speech community.
Periphrastic perfect forms are among such innovations. As regards the
Past Perfect, in Standard Greek it has the principal reading of past in
the past, as well as a remote past use; in contrast, the Cypriot Greek
Past Perfect is largely interchangeable with the florist (Simple
Perfective Past) and it may be deployed for pragmatic purposes, e.g. to
mark an important point in a narrative, possibly due to its relative
formality. In recent work it was claimed that this innovation is
specific to Cypriot Greek. This paper revisits this hypothesis on the
basis of the observation that Standard Greek also seems to display
partly similar patterns. Using naturalistic data and data from a
grammaticality judgement task, we explore (a) whether such variation is
sociolinguistically conditioned and (b) what the semantics and
pragmatics of the innovative Past Perfect are in each variety.
ER -