Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects : : From Central Greece to the Black Sea / / ed. by Georgios K. Giannakis, Emilio Crespo, Panagiotis Filos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Barrio Vega, María Luisa del,; Bubenik, Vit,; Cassio, Albio Cesare,; Crespo, Emilio,; Dosuna, Julián Méndez,; Déniz, Alcorac Alonso,; Filos, Panagiotis,; Finkelberg, Margalit,; Giannakis, Georgios K.,; Hatzopoulos, Miltiades B.,; Helly, Bruno,; Izquierdo, Enrique Nieto,; Janko, Richard,; Joseph, Brian D.,; Lillo, Antonio,; Pantelidis, Nikolaos,; Ramón, José Luis García,; Striano, Araceli,; Tselikas, Sotirios,; Villa, Jesús de la,
• HerausgeberIn: Crespo, Emilio,; Filos, Panagiotis,; Giannakis, Georgios K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 49
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVII, 599 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of figures, tables and maps -- Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects. From Central Greece to the Black Sea: Introductory Remarks -- I. Genetic Relations, Synchronic Contacts and Convergences -- Ancient Greek Dialectology: Old and New Questions, Recent Developments -- The Greek Dialects in the Palatial and Post-Palatial Late Bronze Age -- Koiné, Koiná, Koinaí: Are we Talking About the Same Thing? -- North-West Doric Koina and the Issue of ‘Koineization’: Sociolinguistic Concerns -- Boeotian and its Neighbors: A Central Helladic Dialect Continuum? -- Notes on the Origin and Diffusion of the -εσσι Datives -- Linguistic Contact in the Ancient Balkans: A Sprachbund, or Something Else? -- II. Epirus and the International Center Of Dodona -- The Dialectal Variety of Epirus -- The Doric Dialects in the Corpus of the Oracular Tablets from Dodona -- The Language of the Dodona Oracular Tablets: The Non-Doric Inquiries -- III. (Ancient) Macedonian -- Recent Research in the Ancient Macedonian Dialect: Consolidation and New Perspectives -- The Softening of Obstruent Consonants in the Macedonian Dialect -- IV. Thessalian -- Some Materials for a Historical Grammar of the Thessalian Dialect -- Palatalized Consonants in Thessalian? New Perspectives on an Old Problem -- Thessalian Secondary 3pl. -(ι)εν and the Optative: Dangerous Liaisons -- More on Aspect and Modality in Thessalian Official Documents -- On Thessalian πόκκι Constructions: A Morphosyntactic and Semantic Question -- V. Lesbian -- Lesbian and Mainland Greece -- René Hodot Lesbian, in Space, Time, and its Uses -- VI. North Ionic And The Black Sea -- The Ionic of North Aegean (from the River Strymon to the River Hebrus) -- The Greek Language in the Black Sea -- The Dialect of Thasos and the Transmission of Archilochus’ Fragments -- Index locorum -- General Index