Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 369 Seiten)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9789004543713
Series Statement:
Brill’s studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics volume 26
Content:
The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification
Note:
This study originated as the author's doctoral dissertation which was written between October 2011 and September 2016 under the auspices of the ‘E’ Philology and Linguistics Caucus at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
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Dissertation University of Cambridge 2017
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004433212
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-90-04-43321-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Griechisch
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Äolisch
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Dialektologie
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1163/9789004543713
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