A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

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