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Summary
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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 pragmaticsAuthor Notes
Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005) and the co-editor with A. Kahane of Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and Epic Text (1997). He has published widely on various aspects of the Greek language, in particular, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and speaking versus writing.
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The title of this work is somewhat inaccurate, on two counts: first, Bakker (Yale) and his fellow contributors also deal with Byzantine, medieval, and modern Greek; second, the book focuses not strictly on Greek language (viz., as viewed by historical-comparative linguistics) but on the language in all of its manifestations and uses. The result is a valuable collection of authoritative essays on an impressively varied number of topics important for the study of Greek. Introductory chapters examine the recoverable beginnings of the language and discuss the sources for current knowledge of Greek; here the essays on inscriptions and on Linear B are especially helpful. Several chapters offer exemplary treatments of issues of linguistics (those on syntax and semantics will be most accessible to the nonexpert). Four essays investigate the language through the fascinating lens of sociolinguistics, and the two largest sections (eight chapters each) cover how the Greek language was affected by interactions between speakers of it and of other languages and the language of the various genres of Greek literature. The work is wonderfully clear, informative, and engaging. Students and scholars will enjoy consulting it. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. M. J. Johnson Vanderbilt University
Table of 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 IntroductionEgbert J. Bakker |
| Part I The Sources |
| 2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B TabletsSilvia Ferrara |
| 3 Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek LanguageRoger D. Woodard |
| 4 InscriptionsRudolf Wachter |
| 5 PapyriArthur Verhoogt |
| 6 The Manuscript TraditionNiels Gaul |
| Part II The Language |
| 7 PhonologyPhilomen Probert |
| 8 Morphology and Word FormationMichael Weiss |
| 9 Semantics and VocabularyMichael Clarke |
| 10 SyntaxEvert van Emde Boas |
| 11 Pragmatics: Speech and TextEgbert J. Bakker |
| Part III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections |
| 12 Greek and Proto-Indo-EuropeanJeremy Rau |
| 13 Mycenaean GreekRupert Thompson |
| 14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical AgesStephen Colvin |
| 15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical PeriodShane Hawkins |
| 16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek LanguagesClaude Brixhe |
| 17 Greek in EgyptSofia Torallas Tovar |
| 18 Jewish and Christian GreekCoulter H. George |
| 19 Greek and Latin BilingualismBruno Rochette |
| Part IV Greek in Context |
| 20 Register VariationAndreas Willi |
| 21 Female SpeechThorsten Fögen |
| 22 Forms of Address and Markers of StatusEleanor Dickey |
| 23 Technical Languages: Science and MedicineFrancesca Schironi |
| Part V Greek as Literature |
| 24 Inherited PoeticsJoshua T. Katz |
| 25 Language and MeterGregory Nagy |
| 26 Literary DialectsOlga Tribulato |
| 27 The Greek of EpicOlav Hackstein |
| 28 The Language of Greek Lyric PoetryMichael Silk |
| 29 The Greek of Athenian TragedyRichard Rutherford |
| 30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, OratoryVictor Bers |
| 31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second SophisticLawrence Kim |
| Part VI The Study of Greek |
| 32 Greek Philosophers on LanguageCasper de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen |
| 33 The Birth of Grammar in GreeceAndreas U. Schmidhauser |
| 34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and GrammarJames I. Porter |
| Part VII Beyond Antiquity |
| 35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical PastStaffan Wahlgren |
| 36 Medieval and Early Modern GreekDavid Holton |
| 37 Modern GreekPeter Mackridge |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
