van Beek, Lucien

The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek : Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache - Brill 2022 - 1 electronic resource (586 p.)

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Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new scenario of language change in the epic tradition.; Readership: The book is a must-have for academic libraries and specialists/researchers in Indo-European Linguistics, Homeric studies (and hence Classics more generally), Mycenology, and Ancient Greek dialectology.


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9789004469747 9789004469747 9789004469730

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Historical & comparative linguistics

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