Bakker, Egbert J.

Companion to the Ancient Greek Language. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (699 pages) - Blackwell companions to the ancient world . - Blackwell companions to the ancient world .

A COMPANION TO THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Symbols Used -- Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works -- Abbreviations of Modern Sources -- Linguistic and Other Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- PART I The Sources -- 2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets -- 3 Phoinikēia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language -- 4 Inscriptions -- 5 Papyri -- 6 The Manuscript Tradition -- PART II The Language -- 7 Phonology -- 8 Morphology and Word Formation -- 9 Semantics and Vocabulary -- 10 Syntax -- 11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text -- PART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections -- 12 Greek and Proto-Indo-European -- 13 Mycenaean Greek -- 14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages -- 15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period -- 16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages -- 17 Greek in Egypt -- 18 Jewish and Christian Greek -- 19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism -- PART IV Greek in Context -- 20 Register Variation -- 21 Female Speech -- 22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status -- 23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine -- PART V Greek as Literature -- 24 Inherited Poetics -- 25 Language and Meter -- 26 Literary Dialects -- 27 The Greek of Epic -- 28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry -- 29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy -- 30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory -- 31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic -- PART VI The Study of Greek -- 32 Greek Philosophers on Language -- 33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece -- 34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar -- PART VII Beyond Antiquity -- 35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past -- 36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek -- 37 Modern Greek -- Bibliography -- Index.

A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language. A collection of 36 original essays by a team of international scholarsTreats the survival and transmission of Ancient GreekIncludes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

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Greek language -- History.
Greek philology.


Electronic books.

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