Greek
Subtitle: a history of the language and its speakers
Publisher: Wiley; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781118785157
Table of contents: title: Preface to the first edition; title: Preface to the second edition; title: IPA chart; title: The Greek alphabet; title: Introduction : The scope and purpose of this book; title: Part one : Ancient Greek : from Mycenae to the Roman Empire.; title: The ancient Greek dialects; title: Classical Greek : official and literary "standards"; title: The rise of Attic; title: Greek in the Hellenistic world; title: Greek in the Roman Empire; title: Spoken Koine in the Roman period; title: Part two : Byzantium : from Constantine I to Mehmet the Conqueror.; title: Historical prelude; title: Greek in the Byzantine Empire : the major issues; title: Byzantine belles lettres; title: The written Koine in Byzantium; title: Spoken Greek in the Byzantine Empire : the principal developments; title: Texts in the "vernacular"; title: Part three : Modern Greek : from the Ottoman Empire to the European Union.; title: Ottoman rule and the War of Independence; title: Spoken Greek in the Ottoman period; title: Written Greek in the Turkish period; title: The history of the modern Greek state; title: The "language question" and its resolution