Φωνή Ελλήνων : ideology of fragmentation in the scholarship of its diachronic analysis

Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.11-12, 2000, pages 73-88

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From a contemporary linguistics metrical theory perspective, the change of quantitative-to-qualitative-based rhythm in the prosodic system of Ελληνικά - during and after the so-called "classical period" of its development - reflects a transfer of quantity within the structural domains of the phonological syllable. This type of transfer is linguistically "natural" and universally observable. However, "classics"-historical linguistics scholarship tends to ascribe to this natural process of shift a most catastrophic fate. Considering the basic tenet of the interface of the theory of linguistics and poetics that "the ubiquity and mutual implication of verb and verbal act impart a seminal unity to the two inseparable universals, language and poetry" (Jakobson 1919:230), the present discussion seeks to open a dialogue with all those linguistic analyses on the evolution of Hellenic speech which claim to use contemporary linguistic methods of analysis but whose overt/covert ideology of fragmentation and entropy advances an argument of sfasis, maintaining a "classics-canonical" status quo.
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