Geoffrey Horrocks

Greek

A History of the Language and Its Speakers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day.

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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day.

Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language
Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia
Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781118785157
• ISBN-10: 1118785150
• Artikelnr.: 39764851

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of St John's College. His previous books include Space and Time in Homer (1981), Generative Grammar (1987), Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (1997), and The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with James Clackson, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition xii Preface to the Second Edition xv IPA Chart
xvii The Greek Alphabet xviii Introduction: The Scope and Purpose of This
Book 1 PART I Ancient Greek: From Mycenae to the Roman Empire 7 1 The
Ancient Greek Dialects 9 2 Classical Greek: Official and Literary
'Standards' 43 3 The Rise of Attic 67 4 Greek in the Hellenistic World 79 5
Greek in the Roman Empire 124 6 Spoken Koine in the Roman Period 160 PART
II Byzantium: From Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror 189 7 Historical
Prelude 191 8 Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Major Issues 207 9
Byzantine Belles Lettres 231 10 The Written Koine in Byzantium 244 11
Spoken Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Principal Developments 273 12
Texts in the 'Vernacular' 325 PART III Modern Greek: From the Ottoman
Empire to the European Union 371 13 Ottoman Rule and the War of
Independence 373 14 Spoken Greek in the Ottoman Period 379 15 Written Greek
in the Turkish Period 413 16 The History of the Modern Greek State 428 17
The 'Language Question' and its Resolution 438 Bibliography 471 Index 493

Rezensionen

"Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." (Choice, 1 February 2011)

"...one of Horrocks' greatest achievements is the skill with which he demonstrates the special value of the history of Greek, thinking about the Greek language in terms of breadth and depth that are unusual among linguists working on Greek." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 9 May 2011)