A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present

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BRILL, 2005 - 345 pages
Greek is one of the few languages still known to us after three thousand years that are still spoken today. In this English translation of Francisco Rodriguez Adrados's "Historia de lengua griega," an overview is presented of the development of the Greek language at its different stages. Professor Adrados touches on a rich variety of topics, making "A History of the Greek Language" into a colourful collection of linguistic ideas.
 

Table des matières

FROM INDOEUROPEAN TO GREEK
3
general description
5
GREEK AT THE DOORS OF GREECE
16
FROM COMMON GREEK TO THE DIALECTS
22
The first stage
118
Ionic prose
126
45
128
The ancient Hippocratics
140
52
219
Hellenised Latin and GreekLatin 9 Greek and other languages of antiquity
220
BYZANTINE GREEK AND ITS INFLUENCE
226
century
237
GREEK IN THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
269
22
287
MODERN GREEK
291
CONCLUSION
312

8
149
The creation of the scientific language
161
12
162
Atticism
178
19
179
48
197
The evolution of the intellectual and scientific lexicon
203
50
206

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À propos de l'auteur (2005)

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, emeritus Professor of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is renowned for his publications on the History of the Graeco-Latin fable. In addition to this, his research interest lies with the history of Indo-European languages.

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