Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek /

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek / / ed. by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse.

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Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek, but little is known about later periods of the Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most important varie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bentein, Klaas,
Boeten, Julie,
Bruno, Carla,
Crespo, Emilio,
Fendel, Victoria,
Hinterberger, Martin,
Horrocks, Geoffrey,
Janse, Mark,
Kavčič, Jerneja,
Koroli, Aikaterini,
Leiwo, Martti,
Stolk, Joanne Vera,
Torallas Tovar, Sofía,
Vierros, Marja,
Wahlgren, Staffan,
HerausgeberIn:
Bentein, Klaas,
Janse, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 331
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 429 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • The Greek Alphabet
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1 Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Novel questions and approaches
  • Part I: VARIETIES OF POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  • 2 Tracking down lects in Roman Egypt
  • 3 Idiolect in focus: Two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion (II BCE)
  • 4 Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters: A case study of six Byzantine letters written in an ecclesiastical context (VI–VII CE)
  • 5 Greek in Egypt or Egyptian Greek? Syntactic regionalisms (IV CE)
  • 6 In search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
  • 7 Byzantine literature in “classicised” genres: Some grammatical realities (V–XIV CE)
  • 8 From highly classicizing to common prose (XIII–XIV CE): The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates’ History
  • 9 Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek)
  • Part II: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION IN POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
  • 10 Tense variation in Ptolemaic papyri: Towards a grammar of epistolary dialogue
  • 11 The Classical norm and varieties of Post-classical Greek: Expressions of anteriority and posteriority in a corpus of official documents (I–II CE)
  • 12 Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE–800 CE)
  • 13 The Greek phonology of a tax collector in Egypt in the first century CE
  • 14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα
  • 15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek
  • 16 The distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE
  • Index locorum
  • Index nominum
  • Index rerum

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