The Greek Language after Antiquity
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It begins with a radical proposal for a different approach to the historical linguistics of Greek, focused on the process of language diversification, as opposed to the traditional genetic approach to dialect emergence. Other topics include register variation in Byzantine literature, crucial for understanding the subsequent evolution of a written standard; morphological variation in conjunction with problems of textual transmission in medieval and early modern vernacular texts, with special focus on the notion of “philology”; evidence for language contact in the late medieval period; and the use of graphemic evidence, i.e. spelling, to detect changes in pronunciation over a long time span. Two chapters examine issues of word formation: one presents a new research project on diachronic derivational morphology; the other examines compound formation in the Cretan dialect. The final chapter examines theoretical and methodological issues in studying the historical semantics of Greek.
This book is essential reading for researchers in Greek historical linguistics and especially useful for students, teachers and researchers in Classics, Byzantine studies and general linguistics, with important connections to the historical linguistics and text-critical studies of other languages, particularly Romance and Turkish.
David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Selwyn College. He has published widely on Greek language and literature from late medieval to modern, particularly Cretan and Cypriot poetry of the Renaissance period. He edited Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete (1991; Greek edition 1997). He is co-author of two grammars of Modern Greek and he directed the research project that produced The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (4 vols., 2019). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024). Io Manolessou is the Acting Director of the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens. She holds a PhD in historical linguistics from the University of Cambridge, and has published many papers on the history of the Greek language and its dialects. Major contributions include vol. 7 of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek (chief editor, 2021), the Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (co-author, 2019), and the Historical Dictionary of the Dialects of Cappadocia (chief editor, 2024).
Introduction
David Holton and Io Manolessou
1. The regional diversification of Greek AD
Io Manolessou
2. Investigating the diachronic phonology of Medieval and Modern Greek through graphemic evidence
Nikolaos Pantelidis
3. Language contact in Late Medieval Greek: an under-estimated phenomenon?
Theodore Markopoulos
4. Philology and φιλολογία: linguistic variation in Medieval and Early Modern Greek from the viewpoint of textual scholarship
Tina Lendari
5. Many linguistic ways to tell the same story: the four versions of the Life of Maximos the Hutburner
Martin Hinterberger
6. Medieval and Early Modern Greek derivational morphology: the missing chapters
Tina Lendari and Io Manolessou
7. Compounding in Cretan across centuries
Angela Ralli and George Chairetakis
8. Issues in the historical semantic analysis of Modern Greek
Christina Bassea-Bezantakou
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 6 Tables, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-42734-5 / 1032427345 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-42734-8 / 9781032427348 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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