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Author : Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521833078
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Author : Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118785150
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9047415590
A History of the Greek Language is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9789004225978
Author : Stephen Colvin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1405149256
A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient Greek Attested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of the most influential languages in human history. English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic are among the many languages to have borrowed key terms and concepts from Greek. A Brief History of Ancient Greek takes the reader through the history of this ancient language from its Indo-European beginnings right up to the present day, and explains key relationships between the language and literature of the Classical period (500–300 bc). The development of the language is also related to the social and political context, in line with modern sociolinguistic thought. The book reflects the latest scholarship on subjects such as koine Greek, and the relationship between literary and vernacular Greek. All Greek is transliterated and translated where appropriate, so that the text is accessible to readers who know little or no Greek, including scholars and students who require an accessible overview of the history of the language, or linguists and professionals who need a quick source of data and background information.
Author : Felicia Logozzo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110551756
The volume assembles about 50 contributions presented at the Intenational Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held in Rome, March 2015. This Colloquium opened a new series of international conferences that has replaced previous national meetings on this subject. They embrace essential topics of Ancient Greek Linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: particles and their functional uses; phonology; tense, aspect, modality; syntax and thematic roles; lexicon and onomastics; Greek and other languages; speech acts and pragmatics.
Author : Raf Van Rooy
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102104
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance. Inspired by the humanist battle cry “To the sources!” scholars took a detailed look at the Greek source texts in the original language and its different dialects. In so doing, they saw themselves confronted with major linguistic questions: Is there any order in this immense diversity? Can the Ancient Greek dialects be classified into larger groups? Is there a hierarchy among the dialects? Which dialect is the oldest? Where should problematic varieties such as Homeric and Biblical Greek be placed? How are the differences between the Greek dialects to be described, charted, and explained? What is the connection between the diversity of the Greek tongue and the Greek homeland? And, last but not least, are Greek dialects similar to the dialects of the vernacular tongues? Why (not)? This book discusses and analyzes the often surprising and sometimes contradictory early modern answers to these questions.
Author : Egbert J. Bakker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1118782917
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
Author : Deborah Levine Gera
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780199256167
"The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles that have intrigued people for many centuries. This book explores Greek ideas on the beginnings of language, and the links between speech and civilization. It is a study of ancient Greek views on the nature of the world's first society and first language, the source of language, the development of civilization and speech, and the relation between people's level of civilization and the kind of language they use." "Discussions of later Western reflections on the origin and development of language and society, particularly during the Enlightenment, feature in the book, along with brief surveys of recent research on glottogenesis, the acquisition of language, and the beginnings of civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : James Clackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1316297802
Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of ethnicity, and negotiating positions of social status and group membership. Language could reinforce social norms and shed light on taboos. This book presents an accessible account of ways in which linguistic evidence can illuminate topics such as imperialism, ethnicity, social mobility, religion, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, without assuming the reader has any knowledge of Greek or Latin, or of linguistic jargon. It describes the rise of Greek and Latin at the expense of other languages spoken around the Mediterranean and details the social meanings of different styles, and the attitudes of ancient speakers towards linguistic differences.