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In this companion volume to his earlier work, The Latin Language, Leonard R. Palmer now provides a history of The Greek Language, including an overview of the coming of the Greeks, the Linear B. Tablets, the Greek dialects, genres (in poetry and prose), and a comparative-historical grammar. Palmer discusses the transformation of the Greek language from its Indo-European roots, through the Bronze and Dark Ages, to the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods and beyond. Major authors and genres are discussed throughout the history, including essays on Homer, Melic poetry, tragedy, Herodotus and Thucydides.

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The Greek Language
By Leonard R. Palmer
University of Oklahoma Press
Norman
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Library of Coagress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Palmer, Leonard Robert, 1906
The Greek language / by Leonard R. Palmer.
p. cm. - (Originally published: Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities
Press, 1980, in series: The great languages.)
Includes bibliographical references (p.316) and index.
ISBN 0-8061-2844-5 (alk. paper)
1. Greek langauge-History. 2. Greek language-Grammar. Historical.
I. Title.
PA227.P3 1996
95-44855
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 2
First published in 1980 by Faber & Faber Ltd. in the United Kingdom and by Humanities Press in the U.S.A. Copyright 1980 by Leonard R. Palmer. New edition published 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University, by special arrangement with Bristol Classical Press an imprint of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
List of Figures in the Text
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Preface
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Part I
An Outline History of the Greek Language
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The Prehistory of the Greek Language
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1. Greek and Indo-European
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2. The Greekness of Greek
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3. Greeks and Pre-Greeks
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4. The Anatolian Languages
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5. The Coming of the Greeks
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The Earliest Texts: The Linear B Tablets
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1. The Aegean Scripts
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2. Personal Names
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3. Mycenaean Grammar
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4. Dialect Variation and Chronology
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The Greek Dialects
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1. Introductory
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2. Dialect Characteristics
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3. Dialect Interrelations and Historical Interpretation
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4. The Second Colonial Period
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The Literary Languages: Poetry
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1. Homer
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2. Hesiod
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