25.4727, Books: The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature: Hinterberger (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:14:15
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature: Hinterberger (ed.)

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Title: The Language of Byzantine Learned Literature 
Series Title: Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 9  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
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Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=49384 

Editor: Martin Hinterberger

Paperback: ISBN:  9782503552378 Pages: 234 Price: U.S. $ 95

Abstract:

Built on a highly traditional educational system, the language of Byzantine
literature was for the most part written in an idiom deeply influenced by
ancient Greek texts and grammatical handbooks. The resulting overall
archaizing impression of Byzantine Greek is largely why the language of
learned literature - as compared with the relatively well researched
vernacular literature - has seldom been taken seriously as an object of
linguistic study. This volume combines the expertise of linguists and scholars
of Byzantine literature to challenge the assumption that learned medieval
Greek is merely the weary continuation of ancient Greek or, worse still, a
poor imitation of it, while proposing that it needs to be treated as a
literary idiom in its own right. The contribution that texts of this kind can
offer to sub-fields of Greek historical linguistics is explored using specific
examples. Sociolinguistic theory provides a particularly useful framework for
a more accurate analysis of the relationship between the vernacular and
classicizing varieties of Greek literary language. In addition, the impact of
the educational system on the production of texts is examined. In another
chapter it is shown that a number of far-reaching assumptions, which
originated in the 15th century, about accentuation and the middle voice still
tend to colour our understanding of Byzantine, as well as ancient, Greek.
Other chapters focusing on particles, the dative and the synthetic perfect
reveal that Byzantine authors, while of course influenced by the living spoken
language, used their classical linguistic heritage in a creative and
innovative way. (Brepols Publishers 2014)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Middle Greek (qgk)

Written In: English  (eng)

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