Book contents
- Aeolic and Aeolians
- Aeolic and Aeolians
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Aeolian and Aeolic
- 1 Archaeology, Language, and an Aeolian Migration
- 2 The Aeolic Dialects
- 3 More Linguistic Matters: Aeolic Phonology and Morphology as Language Complexification
- 4 Mycenaean Dialects and Despótēs
- 5 Aeolian Patronymics and the Mycenaean Hekwetai
- 6 Mycenaean Epíkouros
- Part II Aeolian Origins in Myth
- Part III Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - More Linguistic Matters: Aeolic Phonology and Morphology as Language Complexification
from Part I - Aeolian and Aeolic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
Book contents
- Aeolic and Aeolians
- Aeolic and Aeolians
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Aeolian and Aeolic
- 1 Archaeology, Language, and an Aeolian Migration
- 2 The Aeolic Dialects
- 3 More Linguistic Matters: Aeolic Phonology and Morphology as Language Complexification
- 4 Mycenaean Dialects and Despótēs
- 5 Aeolian Patronymics and the Mycenaean Hekwetai
- 6 Mycenaean Epíkouros
- Part II Aeolian Origins in Myth
- Part III Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
An examination of a varied set of linguistic phenomena that can be understood as processes of complexification at work in Ur-Aeolic as a variety of Greek that took shape in the context of an isolated speech community –specifically one situated in western Anatolian locales during the Bronze Age.
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- Aeolic and AeoliansOrigins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers, pp. 50 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024