cover next page > title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: cover next page > < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii The Greek Language By Leonard R. Palmer University of Oklahoma Press Norman < previous page page_iii next page > < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Library of Coagress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palmer, Leonard Robert, 1906- The Greek language / by Leonard R. Palmer. p. cm. - (Originally published: Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1980, in series: The great languages.) Includes bibliographical references (p.316) and index. ISBN 0-8061-2844-5 (alk. paper) 1. Greek langauge-History. 2. Greek language-Grammar. Historical. I. Title. PA227.P3 1996 95-44855 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. First published in 1980 by Faber & Faber Ltd. in the United Kingdom and by Humanities Press in the U.S.A. Copyright © 1980 by Leonard R. Palmer. New edition published 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University, by special arrangement with Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 < previous page page_iv next page > < previous page page_v next page > Page v To Elisabeth < previous page page_v next page > < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii CONTENTS List of Figures in the Text x Preface xi Part I An Outline History of the Greek Language I The Prehistory of the Greek Language 3 3 1. Greek and Indo-European 4 2. The Greekness of Greek 9 3. Greeks and Pre-Greeks 10 4. The Anatolian Languages 16 5. The Coming of the Greeks II The Earliest Texts: The Linear B Tablets 27 27 1. The Aegean Scripts 34 2. Personal Names 38 3. Mycenaean Grammar 53 4. Dialect Variation and Chronology III The Greek Dialects 57 57 1. Introductory 59 2. Dialect Characteristics 64 3. Dialect Interrelations and Historical Interpretation 80 4. The Second Colonial Period IV The Literary Languages: Poetry 83 83 1. Homer 101 2. Hesiod 105 3. Elegy and Iambos 113 4. Melic Poetry 119 5. Choral Poetry 130 6. Tragedy < previous page page_vii next page > < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii V The Literary Languages: Prose 142 142 1. Herodotus and Early Ionic Prose 152 2. Thucydides and Early Attic Prose 167 3. Classical Attic Prose: Peak and Decline VI Post-Classical Greek 174 174 1. The Common Dialect 176 2. Grammatical Developments 189 3. The Koine and the Ancient Dialects 191 4. The Genesis of the Koine 194 5. Christian Greek 196 6. The Establishment and the Popular Language Part II Comparative-Historical Grammar VII Writing and Pronunciation 201 VIII Phonology 212 212 1. Introductory 213 2. Vowels and Diphthongs 215 3. Sonants 223 4. Sonants as Consonants 228 5. Consonants 239 6. Syntagmatic Phenomena 242 7. Prosodies IX Morphology 246 246 1. Some Preliminary Notions 247 2. Stem Formation 247 (a) Nouns 247 i. Substantives 254 ii. Adjectives 258 iii. Compound Stems 261 (b) Verbs 266 3. Inflexion 266 (a) The Declensional Classes and the Case Inflexions 283 (b) Indeclinables: Adverbs and Particles 285 (c) Pronouns < previous page page_viii next page > < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix 289 (d) Numerals 292 (e) The Verb 292 i. Introductory 295 ii. The Personal Endings 299 iii. The Tenses 307 iv. The Moods 312 v. Verbal Nouns and Adjectives Bibliography 316 List of Abbreviations 321 List of Symbols 322 Subject Index 323 Index of Greek Words and Affixes 333 Index of Linear B Words 352 < previous page page_ix next page >