Jorie Soltic
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jorie Soltic plays a role.
Articles
2015 Parenthetical “I say (you)” in Late Medieval Greek vernacular: A message-structuring discourse marker rather than a message-conveying verb Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:2, pp. 187–217 | Article
In this paper, I argue that the first-person singular of the “ordinary” verb λέγω/λαλῶ (‘I say’) in the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century political verse narratives Chronicle of Morea and War of Troy does not always carry its “normal”, representational content (‘I inform/assure [you]’).… read more
2013 A defence of the focus hypothesis concerning Late Medieval Greek object clitic pronouns: A case study of light verbs in the Chronicle of Morea Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:2, pp. 185–209 | Article
In this article, I strengthen the contested view that the distribution of Late Medieval Greek object clitic pronouns is not only regulated by a syntactic rule but also by a pragmatic principle, i.e. that fronted focalised information attracts object clitic pronouns into preverbal position. For this… read more