Διερευνώντας τη διαχρονική εξέλιξη των συνδετικών της Ελληνικής: η περίπτωση του AΝ ΚΑΙ

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The study examines the diachrony of the concessive connective ‘αν και’ in Medieval and Early Modern Greek. It is illustrated that the concessive conditional ‘αν και’, albeit present in the language since Ancient Greek, met with a clear decline in usage during the Medieval Greek period. From the 16^th century on ‘αν και’ starts being attested abundantly again and, apart from expressing the concessive conditional meaning, it has also moved towards becoming a purely concessive marker. In the explanation provided here, it is demonstrated that the odd diachronic distribution can be well-understood by appealing to constructional networks and formal factors as motives for grammatical change.