Greek

Author: Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118785150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. • Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language • Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia • Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages

Greek

Author: Geoffrey C. Horrocks
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : el
Pages : 424

Book Description
It is the first book in English to explore the evolution of the Greek language as a whole, in all its regional and social heterogeneity, and in both its spoken and written forms, which, from late antiquity until surprisingly recently, were strikingly different in character, and provided the classic textbook example of what has now come to be known as diglossia.

Greek

Author: Geoffery Horrocks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

A History of the Greek Language

Author: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047415590
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
A History of the Greek Language is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.

Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present

Author: Michael Silk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek, Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.

John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

Author: Alessandra Bucossi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317110706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century Constantinople. What else do we know about John’s rule and its period? This volume opens up new perspectives on John’s reign and clearly demonstrates that many innovations generally attributed to the genius of Manuel Komnenos had already been fostered during the reign of the second great Komnenos. Leading experts on twelfth-century Byzantium (Jeffreys, Magdalino, Ousterhout) are joined by representatives of a new generation of Byzantinists to produce a timely and invaluable study of the unjustly neglected figure of John Komnenos.

Medieval and Modern Greek

Author: Robert Browning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521299787
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Traces the history of the Greek language from the immediately postclassical or Hellenistic period to the present day. In particular, the historical roots of modern Greek internal bilingualism are traced. First published by Hutchinson in 1969, the work has been substantially revised and updated.

A History of the Greek Language

Author: Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004128352
Category : History
Languages : el
Pages : 366

Book Description
"A History of the Greek Language" is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.

Digital Papyrology II

Author: Nicola Reggiani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110547597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of representing any textual and paratextual feature as much as possible, and of encoding them in a semantic markup that is very different from a traditional critical edition, based on the mere display of information. Moreover, several new tools allow us to reconsider not only the linguistic dimension of the ancient texts (from exploiting the potentialities of linguistic annotation to a full consideration of language variation as a key to socio-cultural analysis), but also the very concept of philological variation (replacing the mono-authorial view of an reconstructed archetype with a dynamic multitextual model closer to the fluid aspect of the textual transmission). The contributors, experts in the application of digital strategies to the papyrological research, face these issues from their own viewpoints, not without glimpses on parallel fields like Egyptology and Near Eastern studies. The result is a new, original and cross-disciplinary overview of a key issue in the digital humanities.

Speak: A Short History of Languages

Author: Tore Janson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622907
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. Writing in a lively, readable style, distinguished Swedish scholar Tore Janson makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. He takes the reader on a voyage of exploration through the changing patterns of the world's languages, from ancient China to ancient Egypt, imperial Rome to imperial Britain, Sappho's Lesbos to contemporary Africa. He discovers the links between the histories of societies and their languages; he shows how language evolved from primitive calls; he considers the question of whether one language can be more advanced than another. The author describes the history of writing and looks at the impact of changing technology. He ends by assessing the prospects for English world domination and predicting the languages of the distant future. Five historical maps illustrate this fascinating history of our defining characteristic and most valuable asset.