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Title

A companion to the ancient Greek language / edited by Egbert J. Bakker.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Bakker, Egbert J.

Description

xxxix, 657 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"In this Companion, an eminent team of international scholars presents a comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek language from its Indo-European origins to its transition into Modern Greek. A series of original chapters comes together as an authoritative overview of the language from a variety of historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives." "The volume includes discussions on the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek and the materials on which original texts from antiquity have been preserved. A set of chapters is devoted to discussions of typology, including aspects such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In addition, the book contains chapters on the origins and history of the language as well as on language contact and bilingualism. This wide-ranging collection will be valued by classicists and linguists alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Subjects

• Greek language
• History
• Greek language > History
• Greek philology

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [588]-638) and index.

Contents

Mycenaean texts : the Linear B tablets / Silvia Ferrara -- Phoinikåeia grammata : an alphabet for the Greek language / Roger D. Woodard -- Inscriptions / Rudolph Wachter -- Papyri / Arthur Verhoogt -- The manuscript tradition / Niels Gaul -- Phonology / Philomen Probert -- Morphology and word formation / Michael Weiss -- Semantics and vocabulary / Michael Clarke -- Syntax / Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink -- Pragmatics : speech and text / Egbert J. Bakker -- Greek and Proto-Indo-European / Jeremy Rau -- Mycenaean Greek / Rupert Thompson -- Greek dialects in the archaic and classical ages / Stephen Colvin -- Greek and the languages of Asia Minor to the classical period / Shane Hawkins -- Linguistic diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire : Koine and the non-Greek languages / Claude Brixhe -- Greek in Egypt / Sofia Torallas Tovar -- Jewish and Christian Greek / Coulter H. George -- Greek and Latin bilingualism / Bruno Rochette -- Register variation / Andreas Willi -- Female speech / Thorsten Fögen -- Forms of address and markers of status / Eleanor Dickey -- Technical languages : science and medicine / Francesca Schironi -- Inherited poetics / Joshua T. Katz -- Language and meter / Gregory Nagy -- Literary dialects / Olga Tribulato -- The Greek of epic / Olav Hackstein -- The language of Greek lyric poetry / Michael Silk -- The Greek of Athenian tragedy / Richard Rutherford -- Kunstprosa : philosophy, history, oratory / Victor Bers -- The literary heritage as language : Atticism and second sophistic / Lawrence Kim -- Greek philosophers on language / Casper C. de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen -- The birth of grammar in Greece / Andreas U. Schmidhauser -- Language as a system in ancient rhetoric and grammar / James I. Porter -- Byzantine literature and the classical past / Staffan Wahlgren -- Medieval and early modern Greek / David Holton and Io Manolessou -- Modern Greek / Peter Mackridge.

Call Number

PA227

ISBN

• 9781405153263 (hc : alk. paper)
• 1405153261

LCCN

2009020154

OCLC

324777007

Title

A companion to the ancient Greek language / edited by Egbert J. Bakker.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [588]-638) and index.

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Added Author

Bakker, Egbert J.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA227 .C58 2010