Greek Language After Antiquity - Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics

The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period.

List of contents

Introduction
David Holton and Io Manolessou
1. The regional diversification of Greek AD
Io Manolessou
2. Investigating the diachronic phonology of Medieval and Modern Greek through graphemic evidence
Nikolaos Pantelidis
3. Language contact in Late Medieval Greek: an under-estimated phenomenon?
Theodore Markopoulos
4. Philology and ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿: linguistic variation in Medieval and Early Modern Greek from the viewpoint of textual scholarship
Tina Lendari
5. Many linguistic ways to tell the same story: the four versions of the Life of Maximos the Hutburner
Martin Hinterberger
6. Medieval and Early Modern Greek derivational morphology: the missing chapters
Tina Lendari and Io Manolessou
7. Compounding in Cretan across centuries
Angela Ralli and George Chairetakis
8. Issues in the historical semantic analysis of Modern Greek
Christina Bassea-Bezantakou

About the author

David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Selwyn College. He has published widely on Greek language and literature from Late Medieval to Modern, particularly Cretan and Cypriot poetry of the Renaissance period. He edited Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete (1991; Greek edition 1997). He is the co-author of two grammars of Modern Greek, and he directed the research project that produced The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (4 vols., 2019). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024).
Io Manolessou is the Acting Director of the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens. She holds a PhD in historical linguistics from the University of Cambridge and has published many papers on the history of the Greek language and its dialects. Major contributions include the Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (co- author, 2019), vol. 7 of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek (chief editor, 2021), and the Historical Dictionary of the Dialects of Cappadocia (chief editor, 2024).

Summary

The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: David Manolessou Holton, David W. Manolessou Holton
• Assisted by: David Holton (Editor), David W. Holton (Editor), Holton David (Editor), Io Manolessou (Editor), Ioanna Manolessou (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032427348
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242734-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Modern Greek, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Byzantine Empire, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, HISTORY / Europe / Greece, Historical and comparative linguistics, language;linguistics;greek;history;medieval history