Language change and early dictionaries of Modern Greek

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. J.N. Kazazis, Classicist and Lexicographer 1
5. Part I: History of Greek Lexicography
6. Kriaras’ Medieval Dictionary and its importance for the study of Modern Greek 9
7. Language contact and contact induced change in the light of the (digital) lexicography of Greek loanwords in the non-Indo-European languages of the Greco-Roman worlds (Coptic, Hebrew/Aramaic, Syriac) 21
8. Greek-Albanian and Albanian-Greek lexicography in the 18th and 19th centuries 41
9. Language change and early dictionaries of Modern Greek 57
10. From Plato to the Byzantine Etymologica: The etymologies of ‘ἥρωες’ in the Etymologicum Gudianum 79
11. Crystal’s dictionary of linguistics and phonetics and its adaptation to Greek: lexicographic, terminological and translation issues 93
12. Part II: Etymology
13. Agamemnon 119
14. What’s in a drop? Making sense of ΨΑΚΑΣ in Aristophanes, Acharnians 1150–1151 131
15. Aspects of folk etymology in Ancient Greek: Insights from common nouns 159
16. εὐ- 183
17. Macedonian βίῤῥοξ (Hsch. B 627) 187
18. Part III: Formal and Practical Issues on the Lexicon of Greek: Morphology, Syntax and Semantics
19. Rules for o-ablauting perfects in ancient grammatical treatises: reflections on Theodosius’ Κανόνες 207
20. Connective particles and literary units in Attic forensic speeches 219
21. The east/west and right/left dualism and the rise of some taboos in ancient Greek language and culture 233
22. The Productivity of the suffix -σύνη from Homer to the present day, with special reference to the ‘Septuagint’ and New Testament 263
23. On some related προ-forms for generational distance in Modern Greek 283
24. Explanation of Homeric glosses in P. Cair. Mich. II 4 (Socrates archive)? 291
25. Greek lexicography and the designation of helotic-like populations in Ancient Greece: The history of three compounds 309
26. Lexicographical Scholia in ms. GA 1424 331
27. List of Contributors 337
28. Index 341