The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek : A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification / Matthew Scarborough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scarborough, Matthew, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics ; Volume 26.

Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeolic Greek dialect--History.

Aeolic Greek dialect.

Greek language--Dialectology.

Greek language.

Greek language--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Matthew Scarborough

Copyright Page / Matthew Scarborough

Dedication / Matthew Scarborough

Preface / Matthew Scarborough

Acknowledgements / Matthew Scarborough

Abbreviations of Corpora and Reference Works / Matthew Scarborough

Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations / Matthew Scarborough

Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations / Matthew Scarborough

Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms / Matthew Scarborough

A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names / Matthew Scarborough

Chapter 1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology / Matthew Scarborough

Chapter 2 Methodological Preliminaries / Matthew Scarborough

Chapter 3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses / Matthew Scarborough

Chapter 4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses / Matthew Scarborough

Chapter 5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic / Matthew Scarborough

Concluding Remarks / Matthew Scarborough

Appendix 1 Catalogue of Epigraphic References / Matthew Scarborough

Appendix 2 Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables / Matthew Scarborough

Bibliography / Matthew Scarborough

Indexes / Matthew Scarborough.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004543713

9004543716

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004543713 DOI