A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

Editor(s): Egbert J. Bakker

Published Online: 2 AUG 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405153263

Online ISBN: 9781444317398

DOI: 10.1002/9781444317398

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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 scholars
  • Treats the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek
  • Includes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxix)

    1. Chapter One

      Introduction (pages 1–8)

      Egbert J. Bakker

  3. Part One: The Sources

    1. Chapter Two

      Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets (pages 9–24)

      Silvia Ferrara

    2. Chapter Three

      Phoinikēia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language (pages 25–46)

      Roger D. Woodard

    3. Chapter Four

      Inscriptions (pages 47–61)

      Rudolf Wachter

    4. Chapter Five

      Papyri (pages 62–68)

      Arthur Verhoogt

    5. Chapter Six

      The Manuscript Tradition (pages 69–81)

      Niels Gaul

  4. Part Two: The Language

    1. Chapter Seven

      Phonology1 (pages 83–103)

      Philomen Probert

    2. Chapter Eight

      Morphology and Word Formation (pages 104–119)

      Michael Weiss

    3. Chapter Nine

      Semantics and Vocabulary (pages 120–133)

      Michael Clarke

    4. Chapter Ten

      Syntax (pages 134–150)

      Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink

    5. Chapter Eleven

      Pragmatics: Speech and Text (pages 151–167)

      Egbert J. Bakker

  5. Part Three: Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections

    1. Chapter Twelve

      Greek and Proto-Indo-European (pages 169–188)

      Jeremy Rau

    2. Chapter Thirteen

      Mycenaean Greek (pages 189–199)

      Rupert Thompson

    3. Chapter Fourteen

      Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages (pages 200–212)

      Stephen Colvin

    4. Chapter Fifteen

      Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period (pages 213–227)

      Shane Hawkins

    5. Chapter Sixteen

      Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages (pages 228–252)

      Claude Brixhe

    6. Chapter Seventeen

      Greek in Egypt (pages 253–266)

      Sofía Torallas Tovar

    7. Chapter Eighteen

      Jewish and Christian Greek (pages 267–280)

      Coulter H. George

    8. Chapter Nineteen

      Greek and Latin Bilingualism (pages 281–293)

      Bruno Rochette

  6. Part Four: Greek in Context

    1. Chapter Twenty

      Register Variation (pages 295–310)

      Andreas Willi

    2. Chapter Twenty-One

      Female Speech (pages 311–326)

      Thorsten Fögen

    3. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Forms of Address and Markers of Status (pages 327–337)

      Eleanor Dickey

    4. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Technical Languages: Science and Medicine (pages 338–353)

      Francesca Schironi

  7. Part Five: Greek as Literature

    1. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Inherited Poetics (pages 355–369)

      Joshua T. Katz

    2. Chapter Twenty-Five

      Language and Meter (pages 370–387)

      Gregory Nagy

    3. Chapter Twenty-Six

      Literary Dialects (pages 388–400)

      Olga Tribulato

    4. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      The Greek of Epic (pages 401–423)

      Olav Hackstein

    5. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry (pages 424–440)

      Michael Silk

    6. Chapter Twenty-Nine

      The Greek of Athenian Tragedy (pages 441–454)

      Richard Rutherford

    7. Chapter Thirty

      Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory (pages 455–467)

      Victor Bers

    8. Chapter Thirty-One

      The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic (pages 468–482)

      Lawrence Kim

  8. Part Six: The Study of Greek

    1. Chapter Thirty-Two

      Greek Philosophers on Language (pages 483–498)

      Casper C. de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen

    2. Chapter Thirty-Three

      The Birth of Grammar in Greece (pages 499–511)

      Andreas U. Schmidhauser

    3. Chapter Thirty-Four

      Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar (pages 512–523)

      James I. Porter

  9. Part Seven: Beyond Antiquity

    1. Chapter Thirty-Five

      Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past (pages 525–538)

      Staffan Wahlgren

    2. Chapter Thirty-Six

      Medieval and Early Modern Greek (pages 539–563)

      David Holton and Io Manolessou

    3. Chapter Thirty-Seven

      Modern Greek (pages 564–587)

      Peter Mackridge

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      Bibliography (pages 588–638)

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      Index (pages 639–657)

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