Author: Herbert Weir SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Vowel System of the Ionic Dialect
Author: Herbert Weir SmythAncient Greek Dialects and Early Authors
Author: D. Gary MillerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 1614512957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of: the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.
A Formal Theory of Vowel Coalescence
Author: Wim de HaasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110869241
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A Formal Theory of Vowel Coalescence : A Case Study of Ancient Greek Publications in Language Sciences.
The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects
Author: Herbert Weir SmythThe Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects
Author: SmythDevelopment of the Long-vowel System in Ancient Greek Dialects
Author: Antonín BartoněkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Práce navazuje na starší autorovu studii o vývoji souhláskového systému v starořeckých dialektech. Zkoumá starořecké nářeční rozdíly v hláskoslovném subsystému dlouhovokalickém. Probírá vznik dvojího ē, ō se zaměřením na tzv. náhradní dloužení, stejnovokalické kontrakce e + e, o + o, monoftongizaci ei, ou, vznik středového a dlouhovokalické posuny v řeckých dialektech. Závěrem posuzuje, do jaké míry byly již kolem r. 350 př. n. l. dlouhovokalickým vývojem narušeny v jednotlivých nářečích starší předpokládané genetické svazky.
Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects
Author: Georgios K. GiannakisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110531259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
A new collective volume with over twenty important studies on less well-studied dialects of ancient Greek, particularly of the northern regions. The book covers geographically a broad area of the classical Greek world ranging from Central Greece to the overseas Greek colonies of Thrace and the Black Sea. Particular emphasis is placed on the epichoric varieties of areas on the northern fringe of the classical Greek world, including Thessaly, Epirus and Macedonia. Recent advances in research are taken into consideration in providing state-of-the art accounts of these understudied dialects, but also of more well-known dialects like Lesbian. In addition, other papers address special intriguing topics in these, but also in other dialects, such as Thessalian, Lesbian and Ionic, or focus on important multi-dialectal corpora such as the oracular tablets from Dodona. Finally, a number of studies examine broader topics like the supraregional Doric koinai or the concept of dialect continuum, or even explore the possibility of an ancient Balkansprachbund, which included Greek too. This new reference work covers a gap in current research and will be indispensable for people interested in Greek dialectology and ancient Greek in general.
A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Author: D. B. MonroPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666764655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek
Author: Matthew ScarboroughPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004543716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
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.
The World's Major Languages
Author: Bernard ComriePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317290496
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1125
Book Description
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.