The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek : A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification

by: Scarborough, M.

 The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification.

Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: i–xxvi

Copyright Page
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Dedication
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations of Corpora and Reference Works
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Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations
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Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations
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Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms
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A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names
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Chapter 1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology
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Pages: 1–39
Chapter 2 Methodological Preliminaries
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Pages: 40–59
Chapter 3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 60–129
Chapter 4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 130–211
Chapter 5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 212–240
Concluding Remarks
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 241–242
Back Matter
Appendix 1 Catalogue of Epigraphic References
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 243–292
Appendix 2 Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables
Author: Matthew Scarborough
Pages: 293–296
Bibliography
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Indexes
Author: Matthew Scarborough

The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek : A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification

by: Scarborough, M.

• ISBN-13: 9789004433212 / 978-90-04-43321-2
• ISBN-03: 900443321X / 90-04-43321-X
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2023