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46 PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM as possible are common traits of colloquial speech. And as to the possible reduction of the relat. pronoun to a mere connective, it may be right to suppose that this reduction has begun and has found its quickest development in the spoken language. It is there that the really important changes take place, not in the written language! There is one important question left: if there are so many correlations between the use of the pronomen alJundans and the construction of relat. connection, was this oonstruction so popular in colloquial speech 1 We shall have to postpone answering this question until the third part of this study 152. 152 See III 5.5.
PART II EARLY MODERN GREEK 1. INTRODUCTION The sudden transit ion from the Koine to Modern Greek may be surprising, but is necessary, as it is impossible to study the eventual development from the pronomen abundans to the Modern Greek pronomen coniunctum without having any knowledge of the way in which the relat. clause is formed in the modern language. It will not be, however, the situation in the present-day language which will be studied. The investigations will be confined to the texts ofthe 12th and following centuries. 1.1. The texts The reason why we do not make use of earl ier texts is very simpIe: it is not until the 12th century that the popular language formally appears in literature. One gets, of course, glimpses of it in earlier texts - and we shall see some of them in the third part of this study -, but one has to wait until the 12th century before texts are found which have shaken off the chains of the conventional Koine and Atticism. It is not until this time th at the spoken language, which had been developing silently and latently during many centuries, is able to break down the wall of opposition erected against it. It should not be expected that the spoken language appears in its pure form. The language used in the texts is written language, and especially at this time this means that it is still full of learned elements. The relat. pronoun 8ç ij ö, for instance, does still occur, although we can be sure that it was obsolete in colloquial speech sin ce a long time. The first texts written in a language which resem bles in a higher or lesser degree (depending on the education and the scope ofthe author) the spoken language are poetical. It is not until the 14th-15th century that one finds prose-texts as, for instance, the Assizes and the Chronicle of Machairas, which give a fairly good picture of the spoken language of their period 153. It will be clear that this is a disadvantage for one who is occupied with a study on the syntax of the relat. clause. Relat. clauses do not appear in poetry as of ten as in prose, and, what is even more important, the relat. clauses which do appear in poetry are less complicated in structure. This is why the pronomen coniunctum is not found so of ten in the earlier texts, whereas the texts of the 14th and following centuries are teeming with ex am pIes of it. 153 Both works have been written in the local dialect of Cyprus. The island was such an outlying district that it was free from the influence of the literary language of Constantinople.
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