A new collective volume with over twenty important studies on less well-studied dialects of ancient Greek, particularly of the northern regions.
The book covers geographically a broad area of the classical Greek world ranging from Central Greece to the overseas Greek colonies of Thrace and the Black Sea. Particular emphasis is placed on the epichoric varieties of areas on the northern fringe of the classical Greek world, including Thessaly, Epirus and Macedonia. Recent advances in research are taken into consideration in providing state-of-the art accounts of these understudied dialects, but also of more well-known dialects like Lesbian. In addition, other papers address special intriguing topics in these, but also in other dialects, such as Thessalian, Lesbian and Ionic, or focus on important multi-dialectal corpora such as the oracular tablets from Dodona. Finally, a number of studies examine broader topics like the supraregional Doric koinai or the concept of dialect continuum, or even explore the possibility of an ancient Balkansprachbund, which included Greek too.
This new reference work covers a gap in current research and will be indispensable for people interested in Greek dialectology and ancient Greek in general.
Author(s): Georgios Giannakis; Emilio Crespo; Panagiotis Filos
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 49
Publisher: de Gruyter
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 616
[9783110532135 - Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects] Frontmatter......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
The Contributors......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
List of figures, tables and maps......Page 17
Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects. From Central Greece to the Black Sea......Page 19
Ancient Greek Dialectology: Old and New Questions, Recent Developments......Page 47
The Greek Dialects in the Palatial and Post-Palatial Late Bronze Age......Page 125
Koiné, Koiná, Koinaí: Are we Talking About the Same Thing?......Page 149
North-West Doric Koina and the Issue of ‘Koineization’: Sociolinguistic Concerns......Page 167
Boeotian and its Neighbors: A Central Helladic Dialect Continuum?......Page 185
Notes on the Origin and Diffusion of the -εσσι Datives......Page 207
Linguistic Contact in the Ancient Balkans: A Sprachbund, or Something Else?......Page 215
The Dialectal Variety of Epirus......Page 233
The Doric Dialects in the Corpus of the Oracular Tablets from Dodona......Page 267
The Language of the Dodona Oracular Tablets: The Non-Doric Inquiries......Page 283
Recent Research in the Ancient Macedonian Dialect: Consolidation and New Perspectives......Page 317
The Softening of Obstruent Consonants in the Macedonian Dialect......Page 347
Some Materials for a Historical Grammar of the Thessalian Dialect......Page 369
Palatalized Consonants in Thessalian? New Perspectives on an Old Problem......Page 393
Thessalian Secondary 3pl. -(ι)εν and the Optative: Dangerous Liaisons......Page 409
More on Aspect and Modality in Thessalian Official Documents......Page 423
On Thessalian πόκκι Constructions: A Morphosyntactic and Semantic Question......Page 447
Lesbian and Mainland Greece......Page 465
Lesbian, in Space, Time, and its Uses......Page 475
The Ionic of North Aegean (from the River Strymon to the River Hebrus)......Page 491
The Greek Language in the Black Sea......Page 529
The Dialect of Thasos and the Transmission of Archilochus’ Fragments......Page 549
Index locorum......Page 579
General Index......Page 600
