Sophisticated speakers : atticistic pronunciation in the atticist lexica / Carlo Vessella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vessella, Carlo, author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 55.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 1868-4785 ; Volume 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores for the first time the relation between Atticist lexicography and the pronunciation of Greek, an aspect of Atticism that has never been studied thouroughly before. It examines the ideas of the Atticist about what Greek should sound like, drawing on Atticist lexicography as the main source of information on the special pronunciation of the Atticist. The book addresses all scholars with an interest in Atticism, Greek in the Imperial period, and linguistic purism more in general. It sheds new light on an aspect of Atticism that is otherwise poorly attested, and complements the existiting study on later Greek and the impact of Atticism in the history of the Greek language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

I. Atticist lexica and atticising pronunciation

II. Vowel timbre

III. Vowel quantity: variations in spelling

IV. Prosodies

V. Degemination

VI. Conclusions. Traits of atticising pronunciation

VII. Lemmata and glosses

VIII. Concordances and indexes

IX. Abbreviations and bibliography

Index locorum

Index of Authors

Index of Subjects

Index of lemmata and glosses

Index of Greek technical terms and other notable words

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 10, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110432404

3110432404

OCLC:

1020691355