Διερευνώντας τη διαχρονική εξέλιξη των συνδετικών της Ελληνικής: η περίπτωση του AΝ ΚΑΙ

Abstract

The study examines the diachrony of the concessive connective ‘ αν και ’ in Medieval and Early Modern Greek. It is illustrated that the concessive conditional ‘ αν και ’, albeit present in the language since Ancient Greek, met with a clear decline in usage during the Medieval Greek period. From the 16 th century on ‘ αν και ’ starts being attested abundantly again and, apart from expressing the concessive conditional meaning, it has also moved towards becoming a purely concessive marker. In the explanation provided here, it is demonstrated that the odd diachronic distribution can be well-understood by appealing to constructional networks and formal factors as motives for grammatical change.