Don Ringe

The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to around the 5th century BC, drawing on all the tools of scientific historical and comparative linguistics. It contributes to long-standing debates surrounding the classification of Ancient Greek dialects and discusses the tension between cladistics and contact phenomena.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780198879022
• ISBN-10: 0198879024
• Artikelnr.: 69723353

Autorenporträt

Don Ringe is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Universities of Kentucky, Oxford, and Yale, and has taught classical studies and linguistics at university level since 1983. His numerous publications on comparative Indo-European and historical linguistics include the OUP volumes From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2nd ed., 2017) and The Development of Old English (with Ann Taylor, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and conventions
1: Introduction
2: Proto-Indo-European
3: The phonological development of Proto-Greek
4: The development of Proto-Greek inflectional morphology
5: The initial diversification of Greek dialects
6: The Attic-Ionic dialects
7: Widely shared later innovations
8: Syntax
9: Lexicon
Bibliography
Index