Geoffrey Horrocks 
Greek [PDF ebook] 
A History of the Language and its Speakers

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

Daftar Isi

Preface to the First Edition xii

Preface to the Second Edition xv

IPA Chart xvii

The Greek Alphabet xviii

Introduction: The Scope and Purpose of This Book 1

PART I Ancient Greek: From Mycenae to the Roman Empire7

1 The Ancient Greek Dialects 9

2 Classical Greek: Official and Literary ‘Standards’43

3 The Rise of Attic 67

4 Greek in the Hellenistic World 79

5 Greek in the Roman Empire 124

6 Spoken Koine in the Roman Period 160

PART II Byzantium: From Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror189

7 Historical Prelude 191

8 Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Major Issues 207

9 Byzantine Belles Lettres 231

10 The Written Koine in Byzantium 244

11 Spoken Greek in the Byzantine Empire: The Principal Developments 273

12 Texts in the ‘Vernacular’ 325

PART III Modern Greek: From the Ottoman Empire to the European Union 371

13 Ottoman Rule and the War of Independence 373

14 Spoken Greek in the Ottoman Period 379

15 Written Greek in the Turkish Period 413

16 The History of the Modern Greek State 428

17 The ‘Language Question’ and its Resolution438

Bibliography 471

Index 493

Tentang Penulis

Geoffrey Horrocks is Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of St John’s College. His previous books include Space and Time in Homer (1981), Generative Grammar (1987), Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers (1997), and The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with James Clackson, 2007).