Companion to the Ancient Greek Language
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Product details
- ISBN 9781118782910
- Weight: 1061g
- Dimensions: 173 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2013
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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
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.
