TY - BOOK AU - Markopoulos,Theodore TI - The future in Greek: from ancient to medieval SN - 9780191716317 (ebook) : AV - PA348.F8 U1 - 485.62 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Greek language KW - History KW - Tense KW - Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) KW - Greek language, Medieval and late N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This text on the history of Greek explores what led to the appearance of the modern future in the 16th century. The author traces its origins to the classical period and its development in the Hellenistic. He shows how his findings affect the Greek syntactic and semantic history and grammaticalization theory in general UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539857.001.0001 ER -