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Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek

Edited by: Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 331 | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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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 varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, basing themselves on a broad range of literary and documentary sources, and advancing a number of innovative methodologies. Close attention is paid to the linguistic features that characterize these varieties, with in-depth discussions of lexical, morpho-syntactic, orthographic, and metrical variation, as well as the interrelationship between these different types of variation. The volume thus offers valuable insights into the nature of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, laying the foundation for future studies of linguistic variation in these later stages of the language, while at the same time providing a point of comparison for Classical Greek scholarship

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Klaas Bentein, Ghent University, Belgium; Mark Janse, Ghent, Belgium and Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
The Greek Alphabet Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
1 Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek: Novel questions and approaches Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: VARIETIES OF POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
2 Tracking down lects in Roman Egypt Martti Leiwo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
3 Idiolect in focus: Two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion (II BCE) Marja Vierros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
4 Imposing psychological pressure in papyrus request letters: A case study of six Byzantine letters written in an ecclesiastical context (VI–VII CE) Aikaterini Koroli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
5 Greek in Egypt or Egyptian Greek? Syntactic regionalisms (IV CE) Victoria Fendel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
6 In search of an Egyptian Greek lexicon in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Sofía Torallas Tovar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
7 Byzantine literature in “classicised” genres: Some grammatical realities (V–XIV CE) Geoffrey Horrocks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
8 From highly classicizing to common prose (XIII–XIV CE): The Metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates’ History Martin Hinterberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
9 Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian (East Asia Minor Greek) Mark Janse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Part II: DIMENSIONS OF VARIATION IN POST-CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE GREEK
10 Tense variation in Ptolemaic papyri: Towards a grammar of epistolary dialogue Carla Bruno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
11 The Classical norm and varieties of Post-classical Greek: Expressions of anteriority and posteriority in a corpus of official documents (I–II CE) Jerneja Kavčič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
12 Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE–800 CE) Joanne Vera Stolk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
13 The Greek phonology of a tax collector in Egypt in the first century CE Emilio Crespo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα Julie Boeten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
15 Arguing and narrating: Text type and linguistic variation in tenth-century Greek Staffan Wahlgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
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 Klaas Bentein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Index nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
Index rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425

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eBook published on:

November 9, 2020

eBook ISBN:

9783110614404

Hardcover published on:

November 9, 2020

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110608557

Paperback published on:

July 18, 2022

Paperback ISBN:

9783110991543

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Front matter:

18

Main content:

429

Illustrations:

6

Coloured Illustrations:

5

Maps:

1

Tables:

24

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614404

eBook ISBN: 9783110614404

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110608557

Paperback ISBN: 9783110991543

Keywords for this book

Linguistic Variation; Varieties of Language; Ancient Greek; Historical Sociolinguistics

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars interested in Classics, Greek Linguistics, Ancient & Post-classical Greek, Byzantine Greek, Historical Linguistics

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