This volume presents twenty-one studies by specialists in the field of Greek lexicography. A number of papers deal with historical aspects of Greek lexicography covering all phases of the language, i.e. ancient, medieval and modern, as well as the interrelations of Greek to neighboring languages. In addition, other papers address more formal issues, such as morphological, semantic and syntactic problems that are relevant to the study of Greek lexicography, as well as the study of individual words. Finally, in one study the problem of technical linguistic terminology is addressed along with the methodological, epistemological and other issues relating to the particular problem. The work is of special interest to scholars on the long standing problems of diachronic semantics, historical morphology and word formation, and to all those interested in etymology and the study of words of the Greek language.
Author(s): Georgios K Giannakis; Christoforos Charalambakis; Franco Montanari; Antonios Rengakos
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 72
Publisher: de Gruyter
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 307
Frontmatter......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
J.N. Kazazis, Classicist and Lexicographer......Page 11
Kriaras’ Medieval Dictionary and its importance for the study of Modern Greek......Page 17
Language contact and contact induced change in the light of the (digital) lexicography of Greek loanwords in the non-Indo-European languages of the Greco-Roman worlds (Coptic, Hebrew/Aramaic, Syriac)......Page 29
Greek-Albanian and Albanian-Greek lexicography in the 18th and 19th centuries......Page 49
Language change and early dictionaries of Modern Greek......Page 65
From Plato to the Byzantine Etymologica: The etymologies of ‘ἥρωες’ in the Etymologicum Gudianum......Page 87
Crystal’s dictionary of linguistics and phonetics and its adaptation to Greek: lexicographic, terminological and translation issues......Page 101
Agamemnon......Page 125
What’s in a drop? Making sense of ΨΑΚΑΣ in Aristophanes, Acharnians 1150–1151......Page 137
Aspects of folk etymology in Ancient Greek: Insights from common nouns......Page 165
εὐ-......Page 189
Macedonian βίῤῥοξ (Hsch. B 627)......Page 193
Rules for o-ablauting perfects in ancient grammatical treatises: reflections on Theodosius’ Κανόνες......Page 211
Connective particles and literary units in Attic forensic speeches......Page 223
The east/west and right/left dualism and the rise of some taboos in ancient Greek language and culture......Page 237
The Productivity of the suffix -σύνη from Homer to the present day, with special reference to the ‘Septuagint’ and New Testament......Page 267
On some related προ-forms for generational distance in Modern Greek......Page 287
Explanation of Homeric glosses in P. Cair. Mich. II 4 (Socrates archive)?......Page 295
Greek lexicography and the designation of helotic-like populations in Ancient Greece: The history of three compounds......Page 313
Lexicographical Scholia in ms. GA 1424......Page 335
List of Contributors......Page 341
Index......Page 345
