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Geoffrey Horrocks - Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers



Wiley-Blackwell | 2010 | ISBN: 1405134151 | 528 pages | PDF | 52,5 MB

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day.



• Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language



• Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia



• Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages