The Greek Language after Antiquity: Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Notes On Contributors
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Primary Sources
Introduction
	Notes
	Acknowledgements
	References
1 The Regional Diversification of Greek Ad
	1.1 Introduction, Framework, Aims
	1.2 The Process of Dialect Diversification
	1.3 The Starting Point: The Late Antique Koine
	1.4 Sources: Christian Inscriptions
	1.5 The End Point: The Modern Greek Dialects
		1.5.1 Diachrony as a Criterion of Dialectal Classification
		1.5.2 A Case Study in the Dating of Dialectal Classification Features: Negation
	1.6 Stages of Diversification
		1.6.1 Stage I: 1st–5th C. Ad
		1.6.2 Stage II: 6th–10th C. Ad
		1.6.3 Stage III: 11th–15th C. Ad
		1.6.4 Stage IV: 16th–19th C. Ad
	1.7 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2 Investigating the Diachronic Phonology of Medieval and Modern Greek Through Graphemic Evidence
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 High Front Rounded Vowels in the Modern Greek Varieties
		2.2.1 The Evolution Up to the 16th Century
		2.2.2 Retention of [y]. Up to the Present Day
		2.2.3 <...> and  as Representations of High Front Rounded Vowels
		2.2.4 The Change of [y]. and the Graphemics of [y]
	2.3 Affrication of Velar Stops
		2.3.1 The Graphemic Representation of Affricates
		2.3.2 “Hypercorrect” Spellings
		2.3.3 The Nature of the Phenomenon
	2.4 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 Language Contact in Late Medieval Greek: An Under-Estimated Phenomenon?
	3.1 Introduction
		3.1.1 Rationale: Language Contact and Medieval Greek
		3.1.2 Main Aims, Methodology and Structure of the Chapter
	3.2 Language Contact in the Communities
		3.2.1 General Overview
		3.2.2 Multilingual Communities I: Medieval Cyprus
		3.2.3 Multilingual Communities II: Medieval Rhodes
		3.2.4 Conclusions
	3.3 Language Contact in Texts
		3.3.1 Lexical Borrowing in LMedG: A Reappraisal
		3.3.2 Structural Borrowing in LMedG: A Re-Evaluation
	3.3 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
4 Philology and φιλολογία: Linguistic Variation in Medieval and Early Modern Greek From the Viewpoint of Textual Schola
	Notes
	References
5 Many Linguistic Ways to Tell the Same Story: The Four Versions of the Life of Maximos the Hutburner
	5.1 The Authors
	5.2 Direct Speech in the Lives of Maximos
	5.3 Terminology of the Low- and High-Level Varieties Given in the Lives of Maximos
	5.4 Niphon’s and Theophanes’ Linguistic Profiles
	5.5 Juxtaposition of Parallel Passages
	5.6 Upgrading in IK and M 1
	5.7 Upgrading in IK and M 2
	5.8 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
6 Medieval and Early Modern Greek Derivational Morphology: The Missing Chapters
	6.1 Introduction and Aims
	6.2 Literature Overview
	6.3 Historical Overview
		6.3.1 Changes in Form
		6.3.2 Changes in Meaning
		6.3.3 Changes in Productivity
		6.3.4 Causes/mechanisms of Word Formation Change
	6.4 Corpus and Methodology
	6.5 Database
	6.6 Case Study: The Diminutive Suffix -... in Medieval and Early Modern Greek
	6.7 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
7 Compounding in Cretan Across Centuries
	7.1 Introduction: The Cretan Dialect and Written Sources
	7.2 Compounding in Modern Greek: An Overview
	7.3 Late Medieval Cretan Compounds
	7.4 Early Modern Cretan Compounds
	7.5 Modern Cretan Compounds
	7.6 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
8 Issues in the Historical Semantic Analysis of Modern Greek
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Basic Parameters of the Historical Semantic Analysis of Modern Greek
		8.2.1 Consideration of Meaning On the Level of Language Variation
		8.2.2 Etymology and Meaning
		8.2.3 Semantic Archaisms
		8.2.4 Semantic Change
	8.3 Historical Semantics and Modern Greek Lexicography
	8.4 Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Index