Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-53701-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Indo-European

Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge studies on linguistic change in oral traditions, with a focus on Early Greek epic but also including Near-Eastern traditions (Biblical Hebrew, Quranic Arabic). Several studies focus on an innovative idea of phonological change occurring within an oral tradition. You will also find studies on the adaptation of linguistic form to meter; formulae and epithets; and contact between different traditions or registers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

van Beek, Lucien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Lucien van Beek

1 Prosody, Metre and Reflexes of *r? in Epic Greek: The Case of ???? versus ??d?

Lucien van Beek

2 Changement linguistique et réaction de la langue épique: sur hom. e???e?(??), e???p???? et ?a???ßat??

Alain Blanc

3 Homeric Constructions, Their Productivity, and the Development of Epic Greek

Chiara Bozzone

4 Metrical Constraint and Dialect Borrowings: ?seta?, ?sse?ta? and the Homeric Futures of the Verb ‘To Be’

Albio C. Cassio

5 A Night Reconnaissance: On ??? and Her Aeolic (?) Epithets in Homer

Stefan Höfler

6 The Changing Use of Tmesis in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry

Thomas McConnell

7 The Morphology and Syntax of the Imperative in Homeric Prayers

Simon Pulleyn

8 ?amud: Reading Traditions; the Arabic Grammatical Tradition; and the Quranic Text

Marijn van Putten

9 Archaism, Innovation and Modernization in Homeric Language

Jeremy Rau

10 Alleged Anatolian Phraseological Borrowings in Homer’s Language: A Reconsideration

Zsolt Simon

11 Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition

Benjamin Suchard

12 Dialectology and the Origin of Iliad and Odyssey

Rudolf Wachter

Index Verborum

Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Lucien van Beek (Ph.D. Leiden University, 2013) is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He has authored The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek (Brill, 2022) and published extensively on Greek and Indo-European linguistics, etymology and lexicography.