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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Greek linguistics"”.
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Osthoff's law: a study in Greek historical phonology.
… > VRC) has been an established rule of early Greek phonology for over a century. Despite sporadic objections, it is generally accepted as a genuine historical shortening. However, developments in Indo-European and Greek linguistics have meant that Osthoff's examples are now much less certain: …
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A Grammar of Transcriptions in 2 Esdras: Text, Philology, Phonology
… and historical explanation for every extant Greek MS variant. It provides a defence of the major text critical decisions underlying these reconstructions, and implications that 2 Esdras' textual transmission has for Greek linguistics. A philological analysis is given for every transcription, …
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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚA ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ: a linguistic analysis of the early Greek alphabets
Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’, instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. The research concerning the so-called epichoric scripts was …
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
More than sixty years after Michael Ventris’ decipherment of the Linear B script, 14 of its 87 syllabic signs still have no sound-values assigned to them. This group of ‘undeciphered’ signs represent a significant gap in our ability not only to read the Linear B script, but also to understand its …
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Written Convergence in the Greek Pentateuch: Studies at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
… has monitored the performance of the product as Greek discourse. 2\. Unique target language items that generate inferences in the product are one sign of macro-structural planning. 3\. The product contains unique target language items that generate inferences. 4\. So, the translators monitored …
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Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy
… contact, identity and change in the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the fourth and third centuries BC, as evidenced in the surviving epigraphic sources. South Italy is an area of the ancient Greek-speaking world in which a comprehensive investigation of the linguistic evidence has …
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Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
… ancient language ideologies constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian “barbarian” writer of satire and parody in Greek, and especially on …