Description: The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing together comparative evidence for the Indo-European accentuation of the relevant categories with recent insights into the effects that loss of transparency and word frequency have on language change, Probert uses the synchronically observable correlations to bridge the gap between the accentuation patterns reconstructable for Indo-European and those directly attested for Greek from the Hellenistic period onwards.
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EAN: 9780199279609
UPC: 9780199279609
ISBN: 9780199279609
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Brand: Oxford University Press
Book Title: Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory
Item Height: 242mm
Item Width: 163mm
Author: Philomen Probert
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 837g
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
