An edition of Greek
(2009)
Greek
a history of the language and its speakers
by Geoffrey Horrocks
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. This book offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language. The updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia. This book includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages. - Publisher.
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Greek: a history of the language and its speakers
2014, Wiley, Wiley-Blackwell
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Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers
2010, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
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Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Table of Contents
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
IPA chart
The Greek alphabet
Introduction : The scope and purpose of this book
Part one : Ancient Greek : from Mycenae to the Roman Empire.
The ancient Greek dialects
Classical Greek : official and literary "standards"
The rise of Attic
Greek in the Hellenistic world
Greek in the Roman Empire
Spoken Koine in the Roman period
Part two : Byzantium : from Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror.
Historical prelude
Greek in the Byzantine Empire : the major issues
Byzantine belles lettres
The written Koine in Byzantium
Spoken Greek in the Byzantine Empire : the principal developments
Texts in the "vernacular"
Part three : Modern Greek : from the Ottoman Empire to the European Union.
Ottoman rule and the War of Independence
Spoken Greek in the Ottoman period
Written Greek in the Turkish period
The history of the modern Greek state
The "language question" and its resolution
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