36.1492, Books: Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions: van Beek (2025)

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Subject: 36.1492, Books: Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions: van Beek (2025)

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Date: 09-May-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions: van Beek (2025)


Title: Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions
Series Title: Leiden Studies in Indo-European
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/64153

Author(s): Lucien van Beek

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-53701-9
E-book ISBN: 978-90-04-72180-7

Abstract:

Homeric language fascinates because of its many oddities with respect
to other forms of Ancient Greek. From which dialects did this poetic
language take shape and develop? In which ways did individual poets
alter the language? In this volume you will find twelve cutting-edge
studies on linguistic change in oral traditions, with a focus on Early
Greek epic but also including Near-Eastern traditions (Biblical
Hebrew, Quranic Arabic). Several studies focus on an innovative idea
of phonological change occurring within an oral tradition. You will
also find studies on the adaptation of linguistic form to meter;
formulae and epithets; and contact between different traditions or
registers.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)

Language Family(ies): Hellenic
                      Indo-European

Written In: English (eng)



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