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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bakker, Egbert J.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world.

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language--History.

Greek language.

Greek philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (699 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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 Connections12 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 Poetics25 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78268-572-3

1-282-48235-1

9786612482359

1-4443-3168-X

1-4443-1739-3

1-4443-1740-7

OCLC:

606617000