Prose texts of savants of 16th and 17th in vernacular Greek, on the basis of autograph manuscripts
Abstract
With starting point the generally accepted assumption that the copied manuscripts of vernacular postbyzantine texts contain divergent options for spelling and all levels of grammar analysis compared to the original works, so they do not necessarily reflect the actual intention of the author or the linguistic trends of the era, this thesis record 101 vernacular works produced by 69 scholars of the 16th and 17th century which are preserved in autographs manuscripts. The available information concerning the biography and work of these scholars is presented, and a sample of their work is given, with accompanying remarks on their handwriting and use of language, which lead to the evaluation of the more or less vernacular character of their works, on the basis of a serie of language features from all linguistic levels of analysis. Techniques of stylistic analysis are applied to selected excerpts of autograph texts written by the same author, in order to investigate the authorship of the work ...
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