A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

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A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

4.43 (7 Ratings by Goodreads)
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A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.

  • A collection of 36 original essays by a team of international scholars
  • Treats the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek
  • Includes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781118782910
ISBN10 1118782917
Number Of Pages 704
Item Weight 1061 g
Product Dimensions 173 x 246 x 31 mm
Publisher / Reseller John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005) and the co-editor with A. Kahane of Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and Epic Text (1997). He has published widely on various aspects of the Greek language, in particular, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and speaking versus writing.

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