HORROCKS G. - Greek a History of the Language and Its Speakers (2010)

Sections

Introduction: The Scope and Purpose of This Book
The Ancient Greek Dialects
1.2 The Earliest Records: Mycenaean Greek
1.3 Greek Dialect Relations and the Place of Mycenaean
1.4 Some Examples
1.4.2 West Greek
1.4.3 Aeolic
1.4.4 East Greek
Classical Greek: Ofﬁcial and Literary ‘ Standards ’
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Language of Homer and i ts Inﬂuence
2.3 Ofﬁcial and Literary Ionic
The Rise of Attic
3.1 Attic as a Literary Standard
3.2 ‘ Great Attic ’ as an Administrative Language
Greek in the Hellenistic World
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Koine as an Extension of Great Attic
4.3 The Impact and Status of the Koine
4.4 The Fate of the Ancient Greek Dialects
4.4.1 Introduction
4.4.2 Koineization: the case of Boeotian
4.4.3 Doric koines: Tsakonian
4.5 The Koine in the Hellenistic Kingdoms
4.6 The Koine as an Ofﬁcial Language
4.6.1 Introduction
4.7.1 Introduction
4.7.2 Historiography: Polybius
4.7.4 Reaction a gainst the Koine: Hellenistic p oetry
4.7.5 Reaction a gainst the Koine: Asianism and Atticism
4.7.8 Jewish l iterature: the Septuagint
4.8 Clitic Pronouns and the Shift Towards VS Word Order
4.9 Analogical Pressure on the Strong Aorist Paradigm
4.10 The Spoken Koine: Regional Diversity
4.10.1 Introduction
4.10.2 Egypt
4.10.3 Asia Minor
4.11 Private Inscriptions and Papyri: Some Major Trends
4.12 Conclusion
Greek in the Roman Empire
5.1 Roman Domination
5.2 The Fate of Greek
5.3 The Impact of Bilingualism: Greek and Latin in Contact
5.4 Roman Attitudes to Greek Culture
5.5 Atticism and the Second Sophistic
5.6 Atticist Grammars and Lexica: Aelius Aristides
5.7 The Ofﬁcial Koine in the Roman Republican Period
5.9 Ofﬁcial Writing of the Roman Imperial Period
5.10.1 Epictetus
5.10.2 The New Testament
5.11 Later Christian Literature: Stylistic Levels
5.11.1 The Apostolic Fathers
5.11.2 The impact of Atticism
5.11.3 Callinicus and Theodoret
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Summary of the Principal Developments in the Vowel System
6.3 Some Illustrative Examples
6.4 The Development of the Consonant System
6.6 Conclusion
Historical Prelude
7.1 The Later Roman Empire
7.2 The Age of Transition: Ioustinian ó s and the Arab Conquests 1
7.4 The Late Byzantine Period: Stabilization, Defeat and Fall
Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Major Issues
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Greek and Other Languages in the Early Byzantine Period
8.3 The Prestige of Greek
8.4 Greek in the Later Empire
8.4.1 Introduction
8.4.2 Byzantine Atticism
8.5.2 Academic and e cclesiastical Greek
8.5.3 Ofﬁcial and a dministrative Greek
8.5.5 Chronicles
8.5.6 Christian e xegetical l iterature and h agiography
8.6 The Balkan Sprachbund : Future Formations
8.7 Conclusion
Byzantine Belles Lettres
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Early Period: Prok ó pios (First Half of the 6th Century)
9.4 The Modal Imperfect
9.5 The Late Period: Anna Komnen é (1083 – c.1153)
9.7 Conclusion
The Written Koine in Byzantium
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Chronicles in the Early and Middle Periods
10.3 Hagiography and Exegetical Works
10.4 Paraenetic Literature of the Middle Period
10.5 The Metaphrases of the Palaiologan Period
10.7 Ofﬁcial Greek of the Later Empire
10.8 Conclusion
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Completion of Sound Changes Beginning in Antiquity
11.3 Grammatical Consequences of Aphaeresis
11.5 Dialect Diversity in Medieval Greek
11.6 Later Phonetic and Phonological Developments
11.7 Nominal Morphology and Syntax
11.7.5 Neuters
11.7.7 Adjectives
11.7.8 Pronouns
11.8 Verb Morphology and Syntax
11.8.2 Participles
11.9 Conclusion
12.1 The Early and Middle Periods
12.1.1 Introduction
12.1.2 The Protobulgarian i nscriptions
12.2 Vernacular Literature of the 12th Century
12.3.3 The Chronicle of the Morea
12.4 The First Dialect Literature: Cyprus and Crete
12.4.1 Introduction
12.5 Conclusion
Ottoman Rule and the War of Independence
13.1 The Early Years
13.2 Ottoman Decline
13.3 Revolution and Independence
Spoken Greek in the Ottoman Period
14.1 The Impact of Turkish
14.2 The Spoken Dialects of Modern Greek
14.2.3 Greek in the west: the South Italian d ialects
14.2.5 Greek in the e ast: Pontus and Cappadocia
14.3 Popular Culture in the Turkish Period: The Folk Songs
Written Greek in the Turkish Period
15.1 Continuity
15.2 The Impact of the Enlightenment
The History of the Modern Greek State
16.1 Irredentism: Triumph and Disaster
16.3 Recovery, the Colonels and the Restoration of Democracy
17.2 The Roots of Demoticism: Solom ó s and the Ionian Islands
17.4 Reaction: Psych á ris and the Demoticist Programme
17.6 The 20th Century: Crisis and Resolution
Bibliography
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