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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language is a comprehensive volume offering a detailed exploration of the language of Ancient Greek civilisation. This single volume compiles 36 original essays by leading international scholars, addressing historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives. The book covers key linguistic aspects including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, as well as the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek through time.
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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.

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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language provides a comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilisation in a single volume. This work features contributions from leading international scholars, covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.

This collection includes:

  • 36 original essays by a team of international scholars
  • Discussions on the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek
  • Examinations of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118782910

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 December 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Egbert J. Bakker
  • Edited by Egbert J. Bakker
  • Edited by Egbert J. Bakker

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1061g

Pages: 704

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About the Author

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.

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