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Don Ringe (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania)

The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

Don Ringe (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania)

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Oxford University Press
13 June 2024
Historical & comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology; Grammar, syntax
This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to around the 5th century BC, drawing on all the tools of scientific historical and comparative linguistics. Don Ringe begins by outlining the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, focusing on its complex phonology, phonological rules, and inflectional morphology. He then discusses the changes in both phonology and inflectional morphology that took place in the development of Greek up to the point at which the dialects began to diverge, seeking to establish chronological relationships between those changes. The book places particular emphasis on the diversification of Greek into the attested groups of dialects, the relationship between those dialects, and the extent to which innovations spread across dialect boundaries. The final two chapters cover syntactic changes in the prehistory and history of Ancient Greek, and the sources of the Ancient Greek lexicon. The volume contributes to long-standing debates surrounding the classification of Ancient Greek dialects, and offers a discussion of the tension between cladistics and contact phenomena that is relevant to the study of the relationships within any language family.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 164mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   778g
ISBN:   9780198879022
ISBN 10:   0198879024
Pages:   416
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgments Abbreviations and conventions 1: Introduction 2: Proto-Indo-European 3: The phonological development of Proto-Greek 4: The development of Proto-Greek inflectional morphology 5: The initial diversification of Greek dialects 6: The Attic-Ionic dialects 7: Widely shared later innovations 8: Syntax 9: Lexicon Bibliography Index

Don Ringe is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Universities of Kentucky, Oxford, and Yale, and has taught classical studies and linguistics at university level since 1983. His numerous publications on comparative Indo-European and historical linguistics include the OUP volumes From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2nd ed., 2017) and The Development of Old English (with Ann Taylor, 2014).

Reviews for The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek

Don Ringe's The Linguistic roots of Ancient Greek is a useful handbook of the major developments of Greek from its ancestor language Proto-Indo-European (PIE) down to roughly the 5th c. BCE. * Daniel Kölligan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *


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