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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
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Ideal for students, researchers, and enthusiasts of classical languages, linguistics, and Ancient Greek civilisation seeking an authoritative reference work.
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
Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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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
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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