Ancient Greek Accentuation : Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN-10
0199279608
ISBN-13
9780199279609
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 2006
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
837 grams
Dimensions
24.20 x 16.30 x 3.10 cms
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Historical & comparative linguisticsGrammar, syntax & morphology
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As well as giving a better understanding of the history of Greek accentuation, this study yields insights into aspects of Indo-European accentuation and into the effects of word frequency on language change.
The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word''s synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing together comparative evidence for the Indo-European accentuation of the relevant categories with recent insights into the effects that loss of transparency and word frequency have on language change, Probert uses the synchronically observable correlations to bridge the gap between the accentuation patterns reconstructable for Indo-European and those directly attested for Greek from the Hellenistic period onwards.
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