Griko is a severely endangered Greek dialect spoken in Southern Italy, whose syntactic structure remains largely unexplored. Griko retains use of the infinitive in limited contexts. Infinitives have ceased to exist in all Greek varieties spoken within Greece and have been substituted by the subjunctive. This instance of language change, which spread to other languages of the Balkan peninsula, has been the subject of various types of language studies. The project aims to investigate and digitally record core properties of the grammar of Griko, focusing on the occurrence of infinitival sentences vis-à-vis the subjunctive, and exploring the consequences of this marked property for the grammar of Griko on the whole. The proposal is innovative in two ways. The investigation focuses on the syntactic component of grammar, a level of linguistic description that is generally overlooked. Moreover, the empirical results will be transcribed, annotated and made accessible through an online database. The project will thus record aspects of Greek cultural heritage, engaging at the same time in current linguistic debates bearing on syntactic theory, contact-induced change, and the diachronic development of Greek.
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