A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

by Bakker, Egbert J.

• ISBN13: 9781405153263
• ISBN10: 1405153261
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 Biography

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.

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

Introduction

The Sources

Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets

Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language

Inscriptions

Papyri

The Manuscript Tradition

The Language

Phonology

Morphology and Word Formation

Semantics and Vocabulary

Syntax

Pragmatics: Speech and Text

Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections

Greek and Proto-Indo-European

Mycenaean Greek

Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages

Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period

Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages

Greek in Egypt

Jewish and Christian Greek

Greek and Latin Bilingualism

Greek in Context

Register Variation

Female Speech

Forms of Address and Markers of Status

Technical Languages: Science and Medicine

Greek as Literature

Inherited Poetics

Language and Meter

Literary Dialects

The Greek of Epic

The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry

The Greek of Athenian Tragedy

Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory

The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic

The Study of Greek

Greek Philosophers on Language

The Birth of Grammar in Greece

Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar

Beyond Antiquity

Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past

Medieval and Early Modern Greek

Modern Greek

Bibliography

Index

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