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Perfectly absent: the emergence of the Modern Greek perfect in Early Modern Greek*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Marjolijne C. Janssen
Marjolijne C. Janssen*
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Grammar of Medieval Greek Project, University of Cambridge
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This paper traces the emergence of the Standard Modern Greek perfect έχω + infinitive in the Early Modern Greek period. It shows that the construction appears in written sources towards the very end of the seventeenth century. Special attention is given to ‘phantom’ perfects, which can be found in editions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and non-literary texts as well as in the bibliography and which distort the picture of its emergence.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 2013 , pp. 245 - 260
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2013

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At David Holton’s and Geoffrey Horrocks’ Grammar of Medieval Greek Project (University of Cambridge) over the years my colleagues Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou and Notis Toufexis and I collected a wealth of material from a vast number of non-literary and literary sources, which I have used, with gratitude, for this study. Gratitude is also due to Klaas Bentein, Arnold van Gemert, Martin Hinterberger, David Holton and Marc Lauxtermann for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this paper, as well as to Peter Mackridge and the anonymous referees of BMGS. A very warm thank you goes to Katerina Korre for her help in chasing ghosts in the Archivio di Stato in Venice.

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4 See [M. C. Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’ in D. W. Holton, G. C. Horrocks, M. C. Janssen, S. Lendari, I. Manolessou and N. Toufexis, The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (forthcoming).

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10 Markopoulos, The Future, 147-8. For a discussion see examples 3, 4 and 14 below.

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12 This unfortunate mistake in Aerts, Periphrastica, 182, was adopted by Browning, R. in his authoritative Medieval and Modern Greek, 2nd edn (Cambridge 1983)80 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and thus in many studies after him, including the Grammar devoted to the Chronicle: Egea, J. M., Gramática de L• Crònica de Morea un estudio sobre el griego medieval (Vitoria 1988) 78 Google Scholar. Although the mistake was already pointed out as early as 1997 by Horrocks, G. C., Greek. A History of the Language and its Speakers (New York 1997) 231 Google Scholar, and although Aerts rectified it in his lexicon of the Chronicle ( Aerts, W. J. and Hokwerda, H., Lexicon on the Chronicle of Morea (Groningen 2002) 199 Google Scholar), the example lingered on in the secondary bibliography until quite recently.

13 So, among others, the classic studies on the perfect periphrases, Aerts, Periphrastica and Moser, A., The History of the Perfect Periphrases in Greek, unpublished PhD dissertation, Cambridge 1988 Google Scholar. Neither scholar distinguishes between έχω + infinitive and είχα + infinitive, even though the two constructions followed rather different paths of development, as already noted by Chatzidakis, MNE, I, 598-609.

14 See [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

15 Markopoulos, The Future, 70-2.

16 Chatzidakis, , MNE, I, 598–609 Google Scholar, followed among others by Aerts, Periphrastica; Moser, The History; Horrocks, G. C., ‘On condition ...: Aspect and modality in the history of Greek’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 41 (1995) 169-70Google Scholar; and Horrocks, Greek (2nd edn), 300-1.

17 The earliest example quoted in Markopoulos, The Future, 158: από τον ευγενήν άνθρωπον ... είχεν δοθείν γης του αυτού Οικονόμου (taken from Miklosich, F. and Müller, J., Acta et diplomata Graeca medii aevi: sacra et profana, collecta et edita, VI (Vienna 1890)Google Scholar CII.1-2) cannot provide conclusive proof for a thirteenth-century dating. The document is a Greek translation of a 1296 (not 1295) Latin original (= Miklosich/Müller, Acta, VI, App. I, 1, 387-8) (for the date, January 1295 according to the Venetian calendar, see Maltezou, Ch., ‘Τα λατινικά έγγραφα του Πατμιακού Αρχείου’, Σύμμεικτα 2 [1970] 351)Google Scholar. It is unknown when the Greek translation was made, and although it cannot be excluded that it is contemporary with the Latin original, it has come down to us in a seventeenth-century copy; see the edition of the same document by Sakellion, I., Άπογραφή των εν τη Μονή της Πάτμου σωζομένων επισήμων εγγράφων’, Pandora 19 (1869) 459 Google Scholar, and note that the later copy displays other innovations that are not thirteenth-century, such as the form ήτονεν for ήτον.

18 Schopen, L. and Niebuhr, B., Ioannis Cantacuzeni ex imperatoris Historiarum Libri IV, III (Vienna 1832) 97 Google Scholar,l. 8-9. Diplomatic letter from the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Al-Nasir Hasan to John VI Kantakouzenos. The provenance of the Greek scribe is unknown.

19 For more information see [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

20 Chantraine, P., Histoire du parfait grec (Paris 1927) 245 Google Scholar.

21 Konomos, D., Ζακυνθινάχρονικά (1485-1953) (Athens 1970) 27–59 Google Scholar.

22 Only the construction with the invariable participle in -α is occasionally used with intransitive verbs, e.g. θε νά ‘χεις διψασμένα (Erofili, Intermedio I, v. 175); see [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

23 Sathas, K. N. (ed.), Μεσαιωνική Βιβλιοθήκη ή συλλογή ανεκδότων μνημείων της ελληνικής ιστορίας, VI (Venice and Paris 1877)Google Scholar.

24 Alexiou, S. and Aposkiti, M. (eds), Ερωφίλη, τραγωδία Γεωργίου Χορτάτση (Athens 1988)Google Scholar.

25 It first appears in areas that were under western rule, the earliest example being from S. Italy: (to χωράφιον...) το άπερ και έχω αγορασμένον (no. 13, 1. 13-14; 1005, S. Italy) in Trinchera, F., Sylbbus Graecarum membranarum, etc. (Naples 1865)Google Scholar. It is absent from twelfth- to fourteenth-century texts and the earliest unambiguous examples outside Italy can be found in Assizes B (15th-c. ms), the War of Troy (15th-16th-c. mss) and fifteenth-century Cretan documents; see [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

26 Manolessou, ‘Μεσαιωνική γραμματική’, 302.

27 Trinchera, Sylhbus, no. 60,1. 36-9. Note that Spyridon Zambelios edits the same document but offers a completely different, quite nonsensical reading (ακουσμένως?): διότι ακουσμένως έχουν δεθείν εις εσάς; see Zambelios, S., ΐταλοελληνικά, ήτοι πραγματεία περί των εν τοις αρχείοις της Νεαπόλεως ανεκδότων ελληνικών περγαμηνών (Athens 1864) 159 Google Scholar.

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29 Manolessou, ‘Μεσαιωνική γραμματική’, 302.

30 Ms. Par. gr. 2898, fol. 148v; after επάρην.αι with its curious dot, there are two or three letters in blotted ink, the first one possibly <κ>, the last one perhaps <i>.

31 For this periphrasis see now Giannaris, Th., ‘Pluperfect periphrases in Medieval Greek: a perspective on the collaboration between linguistics and philology’, Transactions of the Philological Society 109:3 (2011) 232-45Google Scholar. See also [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

32 The scribe of ms P tends to add -(ν)ε to the infinitive whenever he needs an extra syllable, e.g. ήτον ερωτήσοντα Chron. Mor. H 5770 - είχεν ερωτήσεινε Chroń. Mor. P 5770.

33 Aerts and Hokwerda, Lexicon, 199.

34 Kaklamanis, S. and Lambakis, S., Μανουήλ Γρηγορόπουλος, νοτάριος Χάνδακα 1506-1533: διαθήκες, απογραφές, εκτιμήσεις (Herakleion 2003) no. 50,l. 18–19 Google Scholar.

35 I am very grateful to Dr Lambakis, who confirmed this in a personal communication.

36 In Maras’ script <a> and <ω at the end of the word, though distinguishable, look quite similar. I am much indebted to Dr Drakakis for providing the Grammar of Medieval Greek Project with a copy of the relevant page.

37 Marmareli, T. and Drakakis, M. G., Μιχαήλ Μαράς, Νοτάριος Χάνδακα. Κατάστιχο 149. Τόμος Γ’ (1 Ιουλίου-28 Σεπτεμβρίου 1549) (Herakleion 2006) no. 59,l. 5–7 Google Scholar.

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39 Here είχε δοκιμάσει is equivalent not to a pluperfect but to an aorist; cf. examples 10 and 11.

40 B. Schartau, ‘Δευτερα Παρουσία διά στίχου - The Second Coming of Christ in rhyme. The text of Cod. Vind. hist. gr. 119, ff. 116-25 edited with an introduction, English translation, and index verborum’, Scandinavian journal of Modern Greek Studies 3 (2005) 7-75.

41 Mertzios, K. D., ‘Κεφάλαιον Z’: Εμπορική αλληλογραφία εκ Μακεδονίας (1695-1699)’, in Μνημεία μακεδονικής ιστορίας (Thessaloniki 1947) 209-64Google Scholar.

42 I am deeply indebted to Katerina Korre, who gave up more of her time than I had ever hoped necessary to investigate these forms in the Archivio di Stato in Venice. She provided me with accurate transcriptions of the relevant passages and information on the whereabouts of the documents. The Archive was reorganized in the 1980s. As a result, the documents as edited by Mertzios have been assigned different file numbers, and some have been moved to different files. One of the letters, Mertzios’ no. 33, appears to have been misplaced and could not be found in the Documenti Greci, nor in the Documenti Turchi or Documenti Armeni. For the unverified example from this letter see example 24.

43 Mertzios, Έμπορική αλληλογραφία’, no. 68, 1. 10-11. The document, dated 23 June 1697, is now filed as Documenti Greci, busta 2, no. 108; it is a duplicate of no. 109, dated 03 June 1697.

44 Note that the absence of the /¡/-augment in the imperfect of έχω is not uncommon in the EMG period. For details see [Janssen], ‘Verb morphology’.

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46 Mertzios, K. D., ‘Κεφάλαιον Θ’: Από το αρχείον του εν Δυρραχίω Προξενείου της Βενετίας (1700-1779)’, in Μνημεία μακεδονικής ιστορίας, 269,l. 5–6 Google Scholar. The document is now filed in Cinque savi alla mercanzia, Prima serie, busta 661.

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49 See e.g. Moser, The History, 185, 193.

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51 As the text breaks off in mid-sentence, it is not clear whether the sorrows or the Turks are the subject of έχουν τρέξει, or whether an altogether different subject is mentioned further on in the sentence.

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53 The meaning of δεύτερη και τρίτα is not entirely clear to me.

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56 Ralli et al., ‘O παρακείμενος’, 356.

57 Cf. την εχω αφηερόσην εγώ (no. 17,1. 79; 1108, S. Italy) in Robinson, G., History and Cartulary of the Creek Monastery of St Elias and St Anastasius of Carbone. II I. Cartulary (Rome 1929)Google Scholar, for which the editor rightly proposes to read την έχω αφιέρωσιν (the accentuation in the original is unreliable).

58 Antoniadis, X., Αρχείο εγγράφωνΣκύρου (Athens 1990) no. 47, 1. 17 Google Scholar (facsimile).

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65 For this meaning of πάη cf. γάδαρος έναν κηπωρόν εδούλευε με πάθη in Fable 44,1.1 (‘a donkey worked for a gardener in conditions of hardship’).

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71 Also note that the modern dialect of Mykonos does not have the έχω + infinitive perfect, see Ralli et al., ‘О παρακείμενος’, 356.

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78 Example from Mertzios, Έμπορική αλληλογραφία’, no. 74, 1. 14-15. The reading has been verified by Katerina Korre (see above, n. 42). The document is now filed as Documenti Greci, busta 2, no. 118.

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82 L’ingegnoso Cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Composto da Michel di Cervantes Saavedra et hora nuovamente tradotto con fedeltà, e chiarezza, di Spagnuolo, in Italiano da Lorenzo Franciosini Fiorentino, II (Venice 1625) 79.

83 No evidence has been found for a Constantinopolitan origin, as tentatively suggested by Ralli et al., ‘О παρακείμενος’, 368.

84 Ralli et al., ‘О παρακείμενος’, 356.

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88 The same observation can be found in a Russian-Greek grammar: Nitzoglou, P., Γραμματική Ρωσσικο-Γραικική, ήτοι Μέθοδος ευκολωτάτη εις την χρήσιν των ομογενών και φιλολόγων Νέων, των ποθούντων διδαχθήναι ορθώς τε και κανονικώς την των Ρώσσων Διάλεκτον. Μεταφρασθείσα υπό Παναγιώτου Νίτζογλου του εκ Βουκουρεστίου (Moscow 1810) 78 Google Scholar. Most of the grammars cited in this section can be consulted online at: http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/.

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104 The form may be the result of editorial intervention by Tertsetis: see Pandelidis, N., ‘To ώιωματνκό στοιχείο στη γλώσσα των Απομνημονευμάτων του Θεόδωρου Κολοκοιρώνη’, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics (Rethymno, 18-21 September 2003) (2004) 7 Google Scholar, at: http://www.philology.uoc.gr/conferences/6thICGL/wscl.