Ancient Greek Accentuation
Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 March 2006
- ISBN 9780199279609
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 242x163x31 mm
- Weight 837 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous tables and charts 0
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Short description:
The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but amid this inconsistency Philomen Probert discovers some striking features that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. As well as giving a better understanding of the history of Greek accentuation, this study yields insights into aspects of Indo-European accentuation and into the effects of word frequency on language change.
MoreLong description:
The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing together comparative evidence for the Indo-European accentuation of the relevant categories with recent insights into the effects that loss of transparency and word frequency have on language change, Probert uses the synchronically observable correlations to bridge the gap between the accentuation patterns reconstructable for Indo-European and those directly attested for Greek from the Hellenistic period onwards.
a highly impressive piece of work. It is lucidly and very carefully argued, and will open up new avenues of research in Greek and general accentual studies
Table of Contents:
I
Evidence for the Greek accent
Some background on Greek accentuation
Continuity and change in Greek accentuation
A brief history of scholarship on the Greek accent
II
Introduction to Part II
Words with the suffix -ro-
Words with the suffix -to-
Words with the suffix -no-
Words with the suffix -lo-
Preliminary conclusions
Words with the suffix -mo-
Complex Caland formations
Summary and further consequences
