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The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek

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The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic ...
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  • 27 April 2023
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The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification.
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Price: $152.00
Pages: 370
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics
Publication Date: 27 April 2023
ISBN: 9789004433212
Format: Hardcover
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Matthew Scarborough, Ph.D. (2017), University of Cambridge, is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the linguistic prehistory of Greek with special emphasis on the comparative study of the Ancient Greek dialects, Indo-European etymology and lexicography, and linguistic phylogenetics.