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Studies in the Linguistic Variation of Classical Attic and the Attic Orators https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.112634 Machado, Robert Thompson, Rupert This thesis seeks to analyse several previously unexplored cases of morphosyntactic variation (the distribution of the two perfect stems of γίγνομαι; the dual; expressions of possession; the aorists ἤνεγκα/ἤνεγκον; complementiser selection in purpose clauses; complementiser usage with λέγω) in Attic from fifth to the fourth centuries BC and to explore the nature of this variation in oratory. It first analyses the distribution of these features in comedy to determine what the likely causes of variation were in the spoken language. These are then analysed in oratory (and, where possible, other texts) to determine how this genre reacted to these developments and whether the factors involved in variation were the same in this register as the factors in comedy and spoken Attic. It then examines how the register was constructed from the linguistic resources of the language and how orators pitched the register between the spoken language and the literary tradition. University of Cambridge 2022-06-17 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng AHRC https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/374663 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/40ce35af-c58c-4282-8956-916e219b187a/download 3a26e66bf1a74f6a7b78407c8c79f3f7 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/3c9607ba-e035-470d-aa33-67059fba988c/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ Attic Greek Greek Greek Comedy Greek Oratory Linguistics Sociolinguistics