Double Conjunction Usages in Postclassical Greek

The present investigation addresses the combination of conjunctions, focusing on the pattern ὡς ὅτι. The phenomenon, which has not been addressed systematically before, is considered with data from a corpus of Postclassical Greektexts typifying different language varieties (i.e., New Testament, documentary papyri, Eusebius of Caesarea, Malalas). The paper discusses the different usages of ὡς ὅτι found in the corpus, contextualizing them diachronically and synchronically. Moreover, it addresses the syntactic status of this double conjunction pattern, considering issues of dependency and embeddedness. Finally, it discusses the prag-matic functions of utterances introduced by ὡς ὅτι, touching on issues of orality and discourse segmentation.