Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (May 2012)

From Enclisis to Proclisis in Medieval Greek: σὲ λέγω and its Uses in the <i>Chronicle of Morea</i>

  • Jorie Soltic,
  • Mark Janse

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 2
pp. 240 – 258

Abstract

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Expressions of saying, frequent in the Chronicle, supply a context for the late shift to proclisis, as they are found treated as a whole and rendered proclitic through a reanalysis that made the first word dependent on the second rather than being enclitic on what precedes.