PROIEL: Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages

 PROIEL: Pragmatic Resources in Old Indo-European Languages 

This project is a close linguistic study of the language in the Greek text of the New Testament as well as its translations into the old Indo-European languages Latin, Gothic, Armenian and Old Church Slavonic.

The project aims at describing and accounting for the so-called pragmatic resources of these languages, i.e. the resources that the grammar makes available for structuring information in a text, and eventually to compare the different systems from a typological and a genetic perspective.

In producing oral or written discourses, speakers/writers mark discourse referents (events, times, places and individuals that are spoken about) as old, new or contrastive information in order to make it easier for listeners/readers to keep track of them. Different languages provide different means to achieve this.

After registeing you will have access to:

• Ancient Greek (to 1453)
  • The Greek New Testament Browse
  • Historia Lausiaca Browse
  • Herodotus: Histories Browse
• Church Slavic
  • Codex Marianus Browse
  • Codex Suprasliensis Browse
  • Codex Zographensis Browse
• Classical Armenian
  • The Armenian New Testament Browse
  • Koriwn, Life of Mesrop Browse
• Gothic
  • The Gothic Bible Browse
• Latin
  • Jerome's Vulgate Browse
  • Caesar: Commentarii belli Gallici Browse
  • Peregrinatio Aetheriae Browse
  • Cicero: Epistulae ad Atticum Browse
  • Cicero: De officiis Browse