The Greek definite article across time

This paper discusses the development of the article-system in Greek: an overview of its main syntactic functions is proposed, with a particular emphasis on the properties of the so-called definite article, which will be observed from a diachronic perspective. Various typologies of nominal structures are considered and commented, with the support of data coming from three ancient varieties \u2013 Homeric Greek, Classical Attic, New Testament koin\ue8 \u2013 and Standard Modern Greek. The analysis grounds on theoretical tools provided by formal theories of syntactic variation