Screen LibraryA companion to the ancient Greek language
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. Malden, MA |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world |
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| Carrier Form: | xxxix, 657 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781405153263 (hc : alk. paper) 1405153261 |
| Index Number: | H791 |
| CLC: | H791.1 |
| Call Number: | H791.1/C737 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Mycenaean texts : the Linear B tablets / Silvia Ferrara -- Phoinikåeia grammata : an alphabet for the Greek language / Roger D. Woodard -- Inscriptions / Rudolph Wachter -- Papyri / Arthur Verhoogt -- The manuscript tradition / Niels Gaul -- Phonology / Philomen Probert -- Morphology and word formation / Michael Weiss -- Semantics and vocabulary / Michael Clarke -- Syntax / Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink -- Pragmatics : speech and text / Egbert J. Bakker -- Greek and Proto-Indo-European / Jeremy Rau -- Mycenaean Greek / Rupert Thompson -- Greek dialects in the archaic and classical ag "In this Companion, an eminent team of international scholars presents a comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek language from its Indo-European origins to its transition into Modern Greek. A series of original chapters comes together as an authoritative overview of the language from a variety of historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives." "The volume includes discussions on the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek and the materials on which original texts from antiquity have been preserved. A set of chapters is devoted to discussions of typology, includin |