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Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory

Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory

Probert, Philomen

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

Miscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199279608
ISBN13: 9780199279609
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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