A companion to the ancient Greek language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Egbert J. Bakker

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (699 p.)
• Disciplina: 480.9
• Soggetto topico: Greek language - History; Greek philology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BakkerEgbert J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE; 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; 1 Introduction; PART I The Sources; 2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets; 3 Phoinikēia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language; 4 Inscriptions; 5 Papyri; 6 The Manuscript Tradition; PART II The Language; 7 Phonology; 8 Morphology and Word Formation; 9 Semantics and Vocabulary; 10 Syntax; 11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text ; PART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections12 Greek and Proto-Indo-European; 13 Mycenaean Greek; 14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages; 15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period; 16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages; 17 Greek in Egypt; 18 Jewish and Christian Greek; 19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism; PART IV Greek in Context; 20 Register Variation; 21 Female Speech; 22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status; 23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine; PART V Greek as Literature ; 24 Inherited Poetics25 Language and Meter; 26 Literary Dialects; 27 The Greek of Epic; 28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry; 29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy; 30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory; 31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic; PART VI The Study of Greek; 32 Greek Philosophers on Language; 33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece; 34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar; PART VII Beyond Antiquity; 35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past; 36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek; 37 Modern Greek; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 scholarsTreats the survival and transmission of Ancient GreekIncludes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
• Titolo autorizzato: Companion to the ancient Greek language
• ISBN: 1-78268-572-3; 1-282-48235-1; 9786612482359; 1-4443-3168-X; 1-4443-1739-3; 1-4443-1740-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204860703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to the ancient world.