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112 PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM ginning) and also used the pronomen abundans I coniunctum af ter both of them. It was the unnatural way of thinking of writers, who had artificially revived the traditional relat. pronoun. 7.2.3.2. Relat. pronoun ~ connective In 7.3.1.1 it has been maintained that the relat. pronoun was revived, so much that it sometimes even makes the impression of having the strength of a demonstr. pronoun. This is contrary to something that has been asserted earlier, viz. that the relat. pronoun had been reduced to a connective. That this is a true fact has been made clear in instances discussed in 5.3.2 and 5.3.6. Yet, these two phenomena can exist next to each other. We have to keep in mind that the reduction of the relat. pronoun is real and the result of a natural development in the living language, whereas its revival is something artificial: in reality the relat. pronoun remained as weak as it was. This becomes clear especially in cases occurring in the later texts, where we find phrases as 1-'11 olç and offev, and forms of oç(nç) and oanee evidently used as substitutes for onov, a word which principally is just as fossilized 419. 7.2.3.3. Later examples ot the pronomen abundans In 2.4. etc. we have seen that the pronomen abundans was not extinct af ter all. It emerges again in the Alchimiae apparatio (14th cent.), in the Byz. Alexander-poem (14th cent.) and in the Ohronicle of Sphrantzes (15th cent.). For what reason is it used there, af ter such a long time of successful repression 1 7.2.3.3.1. Alchimiae apparatio. It has been already observed in 2.4.5 that the instances of the pronomen abundans occun'ing in these recipes must be considered as a consequence of the substitution of onee for onov. Consequently it is bet ter to view them as cases of the pronomen coniunctum. The only traditional relat. pronoun used by the author is a (fossilized) onee 420. For the rest he employs ónov 421, ó nOloç 422 and the so-called postpositive article 423 . In this he differs completely from the author of the Byz. Alexander-poem and Sphrantzes, who use only the traditional pronouns. 7.2.3.3.2. In the examples from the Byz. Alexander-poem (see 2.4.2) we observe that the author of th is work had no notion any longer of how to use the traditional relat. pronouns. The effect of the revival has lost 419 See 5.3.6 and note 377, and 5.5 (p. 107). 420 See 5.3.6. 421 'OnoV is only employed in essential clauses. Instances occur in D2, 11, 20, E21, K9 and M15. 422 '0 noioç is used only in cases of relat. connection, preferably combined with a noun: C9 (ónola fPláÀTJ), Cll (ónoioç nTJÀóç) F6 (óno{a aEÀTJVTJ), H14 (tlç 5nowv vEe6v) , 017 (rà ónoia fPVÀÀa) . 423 It occurs only once, in L17 (r:6).
PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM 113 its strength, not in general, but only for this one person. The former negative influence exerted by önov has lost its strength now. This new weakening should not be considered as something caused by a development in the living language. This person's training obviously had not been good enough to enable him to follow the rules set out by tradition : his language is of ten disfigured by obscurities caused by his faulty imitation of Ancient Greek. The only relation of his use of the pronomen abundans with the living language may have been the possible influence exerted by önov + pronomen coniunctum. It has been observed in 2.4.5 that this has been an indirect influence as far as his use of a pronomen abundans af ter the nominative is concerned. 7.2.3.3.3. The historian Sphrantzes has a greater mastery of his relat. pronouns. His usage is not so strange as in the above-mentioned work and he never pI aces the pronomen abundans af ter the nominative 424. In his case it is even more probable that he incidentally yielded to the influence of O:ltOV 425. 7.2.4. Disappearance ot önov A last argument that can be brought up against the supposition that there exists a relationship between relat. pronoun + pronomen abundans and önov + pronomen coniunctum is the fa ct that onov, af ter making its appearance as arelat. pronoun in a few instances, disappears from the stage, until it re-emerges five centuries later in the early Modern Greek period. Apart from the counterargument produced in 3.5 the following can be said: onov did not disappear entirely: there are many instances of the use of the traditional relat. pronouns 426 where one feels the presence of onov in the background 427 . 7.2.5. The situation in early Modern Greek The only positive evidence that can be produced in favour of our supposition is the fa ct that at the time that the spoken language makes its appearance in literature the system of clarification of onov seems to be complete. The texts of the 12th and following centuries show that onov is followed by a pronomen coniunctum, only when it denotes the lst or 2d person, a genitivejdative, a prepositional phrase 428, and finally an accusative of the 3d person. In the last case the pronomen coniunctum appears only when the relat. clause is nonessential. That onov is followed by a pronomen coniunctum is not surprising, but that in one of these 424 For examples see 2.4.3. 425 See also 7.5. 426 See especially the instances discussed in 5.3.2 and 5.3.6. 427 See 7.2.3.2 and note 419. 428 There are onIy a few exceptions. See II 2.2.2, 2.3.2 and 2.4.3 etc.
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