A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

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.

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

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language gives a comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume with contributions from leading international scholars. This collection of 36 original essays covers the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.

List of Figures viii
 
List of Tables ix
 
Notes on Contributors xii
 
Symbols Used xviii
 
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works xix
 
Abbreviations of Modern Sources xxviii
 
Linguistic and Other Abbreviations xxxv
 
1 Introduction 1
Egbert J. Bakker
 
PART I The Sources 9
 
2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets 11
Silvia Ferrara
 
3 Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language 25
Roger D. Woodard
 
4 Inscriptions 47
Rudolf Wachter
 
5 Papyri 62
Arthur Verhoogt
 
6 The Manuscript Tradition 69
Niels Gaul
 
PART II The Language 83
 
7 Phonology 85
Philomen Probert
 
8 Morphology and Word Formation 104
Michael Weiss
 
9 Semantics and Vocabulary 120
Michael Clarke
 
10 Syntax 134
Evert van Emde Boas and Luuk Huitink
 
11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text 151
Egbert J. Bakker
 
PART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections 169
 
12 Greek and Proto-Indo-European 171
Jeremy Rau
 
13 Mycenaean Greek 189
Rupert Thompson
 
14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages 200
Stephen Colvin
 
15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period 213
Shane Hawkins
 
16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages 228
Claude Brixhe
 
17 Greek in Egypt 253
Sofía Torallas Tovar
 
18 Jewish and Christian Greek 267
Coulter H. George
 
19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism 281
Bruno Rochette
 
PART IV Greek in Context 295
 
20 Register Variation 297
Andreas Willi
 
21 Female Speech 311
Thorsten Fögen
 
22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status 327
Eleanor Dickey
 
23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine 338
Francesca Schironi
 
PART V Greek as Literature 355
 
24 Inherited Poetics 357
Joshua T. Katz
 
25 Language and Meter 370
Gregory Nagy
 
26 Literary Dialects 388
Olga Tribulato
 
27 The Greek of Epic 401
Olav Hackstein
 
28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry 424
Michael Silk
 
29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy 441
Richard Rutherford
 
30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory 455
Victor Bers
 
31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic 468
Lawrence Kim
 
PART VI The Study of Greek 483
 
32 Greek Philosophers on Language 485
Casper C. de Jonge and Johannes M. van Ophuijsen
 
33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece 499
Andreas U. Schmidhauser
 
34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar 512
James I. Porter
 
PART VII Beyond Antiquity 525
 
35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past 527
Staffan Wahlgren
 
36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek 539
David Holton and Io Manolessou
 
37 Modern Greek 564
Peter Mackridge
 
Bibliography 588
 
Index 639