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Zusatztext accessible [both] to non-classically-minded linguists... and non-linguistically-minded classicists Informationen zum Autor Philomen Probert is University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Klappentext The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but amid this inconsistency Philomen Probert discovers some striking features that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis I 1: Evidence for the Greek accent 2: Some background on Greek accentuation 3: Continuity and change in Greek accentuation 4: A brief history of scholarship on the Greek accent II 5: Introduction to Part II 6: Words with the suffix -ro- 7: Words with the suffix -to- 8: Words with the suffix -no- 9: Words with the suffix -lo- 10: Preliminary conclusions 11: Words with the suffix -mo- 12: Complex Caland formations 13: Summary and further consequences ...
