21.2705, Books: Historical Linguistics: Bortone

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Subject: Greek Prepositions:
 

	
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Title: Greek Prepositions 
Subtitle: From Antiquity to the Present 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199556854.do 


Author: Pietro Bortone

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199556854 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 65.00


Abstract:

This is the most comprehensive history of the Greek prepositional system ever 
published. It is set within a broad typological context and examines interrelated 
syntactic, morphological, and semantic change over three millennia. By 
including, for the first time, Medieval and Modern Greek, Dr Bortone is able to 
show how the changes in meaning of Greek prepositions follow a clear and 
recurring pattern of immense theoretical interest. The author opens the book by 
discussing the relevant background issues concerning the function, meaning, 
and genesis of adpositions and cases. He then traces the development of 
prepositions and case markers in ancient Greek (Homeric and classical, with 
insights from Linear B and reconstructed Indo-European); Hellenistic Greek, 
which he examines mainly on the basis of Biblical Greek; Medieval Greek, the 
least studied but most revealing phase; and Modern Greek, in which he also 
considers the influence of the learned tradition and neighbouring languages. 
Written in an accessible and non-specialist style, this book will interest classical 
philologists, as well as historical linguists and theoretical linguists. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Greek (ell)
                     Middle Greek (qgk)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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