Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, And Prehistory - Couverture rigide

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Probert, Philomen

 
9780199279609: Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, And Prehistory
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199279608 ISBN 13 : 9780199279609
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Philomen Probert is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199279608
ISBN 13 
9780199279609
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
480
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