Römisches Recht auf Griechisch

The aim of the present work (Roman Law in Greek: Prolegomena to a Linguistic Study of the Composition and Semantics of the Byzantine Vocabulary of Procedural Law) is to study the composition and semantics of Byzantine Greek legal vocabulary, especially that related to procedural law, from the perspective of the Latin influence on Greek. The work is based on a contact-linguistic and semantic analysis of the occurrences of a number of relevant expressions in the primary sources (not only technical terms in the narrowest sense, but also polysemous words). These occurrences have been mainly extracted from the databases TLG (literary sources), PHI (inscriptions) and DDbDP (papyri). The work is not an exhaustive treatment of all relevant words. Instead, by focusing on a selection of examples and on methodological questions, it tries to open a new perspective on Byzantine legal language.

The study is in German.