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Author Holton, David, author

Title The Cambridge grammar of medieval and early modern Greek / David Holton, Geoffrey Horrocks, Marjolijne Janssen, Tina Lendari, Io Manolessou, Notis Toufexis
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (clxx, 2093 pages)
Contents Volume 1 General introduction and phonology
Volume 2 Nominal morphology
Volume 3 Verb morphology
Summary The Greek language has a written history of more than 3,000 years. While the classical, Hellenistic and modern periods of the language are well researched, the intermediate stages are much less well known, but of great interest to those curious to know how a language changes over time. The geographical area where Greek has been spoken stretches from the Aegean Islands to the Black Sea and from Southern Italy and Sicily to the Middle East, largely corresponding to former territories of the Byzantine Empire and its successor states. This Grammar draws on a comprehensive corpus of literary and non-literary texts written in various forms of the vernacular to document the processes of change between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries, processes which can be seen as broadly comparable to the emergence of the Romance languages from Medieval Latin. Regional and dialectal variation in phonology and morphology are treated in detail
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Subject Greek language, Medieval and late -- Grammar
Greek language, Modern -- Grammar
Greek language, Medieval and late -- Grammar
Greek language, Modern -- Grammar
Form Electronic book
Author Horrocks, Geoffrey, author
Janssen, Marjolijne, author
Lendari, Tina, author
Manolessou, Io, author
Toufexis, Notis, author
ISBN 9781139026888
1139026887