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Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Figures
Tables
Abbreviations of Corpora and Reference Works
Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations
Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations
Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms
A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names
Chapter 1. The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology
1. Introduction
2. The Notion of Aeolic in Antiquity
2.1. Aeolic as Ethnicity
2.2. Aeolic as Dialect
3. 19th Century Debates: Ahrens, Meister, and Hoffmann
4. Twentieth Century Developments
4.1. Bechtel and the Status Quaestionis at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
4.2. Ancient Greek Dialect Geography
4.3. New Data: The Decipherment of Mycenaean
4.4. Early Quantitative Approaches
4.5. Sociolinguistic and Wave Model Explanations for Dialect Diversity
4.6. A Family-Tree Model for Aeolic?
4.7. Can the Greek Dialects Be Genealogically Classified at All?
5. The Twenty-First Century: Problems and Methods, Old and New
5.1. The Problem of Convergence in the Formation of Subgroups
5.2. Computational Cladistic Approaches to the Greek Dialects
5.3. Recent Challenges to Aeolic Classification
6. Resolving the Impasse: The Aims and Structure of This Work
Chapter 2. Methodological Preliminaries
1. Introduction
2. Methodological Considerations in the Selection of Isoglosses
2.1. Types of Characteristics in Phylogenetic Cladistics
2.2. Application to Linguistic Data
2.3. 'Selections from Inherited Alternatives'
2.4. 'Significant' versus 'Easily Repeatable' Innovations
2.5. Borrowing and Convergent Development
2.6. Terminological Excursus: Proto-Greek and Common Greek
3. Sources and Methodological Issues
3.1. Definitions.
3.2. Issues in Relative Chronology within the Sources
3.3. The Question of an 'Aeolic Phase' in Homeric Composition and Transmission
3.4. Issues in the Use of Literary versus Epigraphic Sources
4. The Data Collection for This Study
5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 3. The Core Aeolic Isoglosses
1. Introduction
2. The Position of Mycenaean in Classification and Relative Chronology
3. Some Preliminary Assumptions: Exclusion of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Greek Synapomorphic Characters
3.1. PIE *s >
h / #_V, #_r, V_V
3.2. Thematic Present Active Infinitive in *-es-en
3.3. Changes to Nominal and Verbal Accentuation
4. Common Innovations from Proto-Greek
4.1. Labial Reflexes of */kʷ/, */gʷ/, */gʷʰ/
4.2. Reflexes of *r̥ >
or/ro
4.3. Lowering of */i/ >
/e/ / r_
4.4. Syllabicity Loss in Prevocalic */i/: *-iV- >
-i̯V-
4.5. The -εσσι Dative Plural
4.6. The -ων, -οντος Thematic Perfect Active Participle
4.7. The 1.pl Verbal Ending -μεν
4.8. ιἅ 'one' f.sg.
4.9. Patronymic Adjectives
5. Conclusions
Chapter 4. The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses
1. Introduction
2. Isoglosses Shared by Two of Three Dialects
2.1. Lesbian-Thessalian Isoglosses
2.2. Lesbian-Boeotian Isoglosses
2.3. Thessalian-Boeotian Isoglosses
3. Isoglosses Shared with Neighbouring Dialects
3.1. Lesbian-Ionic Isoglosses
3.2. Thessalian-Boeotian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.3. Thessalian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.4. Boeotian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.5. A Boeotian-Attic Isogloss: The Outcome of Palatalized Dentals
4. Conclusions
Chapter 5. A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic
1. Introduction
2. The Probabilistic Method.
2.1. Language Classification versus Dialect Classification: A Problem of Scalarity
2.2. Estimating Repeatability: How Likely Is Independent Innovation?
2.3. Estimating Innovability: What Is the Probability of an Individual Innovation?
2.4. Pulling the Pieces Together: The Operation of the Clade Test
2.5. Clades and Sub-Clades
3. Evaluation: Application of the Clade Test to the Aeolic Data
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Core Aeolic Isoglosses
3.3. Peripheral Isoglosses: Internal Subgrouping
3.4. The Clade Test Results
4. Discussion of Results and Some Relative Chronologies
4.1. Developments to Proto-Aeolic
4.2. Relative Chronology and Internal Subgrouping
4.3. Relative Chronology and the Systems of Infinitives in the Aeolic Dialects
4.4. Relative Chronology and Internal Subgrouping: Conclusions
5. Conclusions
Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1. Catalogue of Epigraphic References
Appendix 2. Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables
Bibliography
Index Verborum et Nominum Propriorum
Index Rerum
Index Locorum.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Figures
Tables
Abbreviations of Corpora and Reference Works
Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations
Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations
Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms
A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names
Chapter 1. The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology
1. Introduction
2. The Notion of Aeolic in Antiquity
2.1. Aeolic as Ethnicity
2.2. Aeolic as Dialect
3. 19th Century Debates: Ahrens, Meister, and Hoffmann
4. Twentieth Century Developments
4.1. Bechtel and the Status Quaestionis at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
4.2. Ancient Greek Dialect Geography
4.3. New Data: The Decipherment of Mycenaean
4.4. Early Quantitative Approaches
4.5. Sociolinguistic and Wave Model Explanations for Dialect Diversity
4.6. A Family-Tree Model for Aeolic?
4.7. Can the Greek Dialects Be Genealogically Classified at All?
5. The Twenty-First Century: Problems and Methods, Old and New
5.1. The Problem of Convergence in the Formation of Subgroups
5.2. Computational Cladistic Approaches to the Greek Dialects
5.3. Recent Challenges to Aeolic Classification
6. Resolving the Impasse: The Aims and Structure of This Work
Chapter 2. Methodological Preliminaries
1. Introduction
2. Methodological Considerations in the Selection of Isoglosses
2.1. Types of Characteristics in Phylogenetic Cladistics
2.2. Application to Linguistic Data
2.3. 'Selections from Inherited Alternatives'
2.4. 'Significant' versus 'Easily Repeatable' Innovations
2.5. Borrowing and Convergent Development
2.6. Terminological Excursus: Proto-Greek and Common Greek
3. Sources and Methodological Issues
3.1. Definitions.
3.2. Issues in Relative Chronology within the Sources
3.3. The Question of an 'Aeolic Phase' in Homeric Composition and Transmission
3.4. Issues in the Use of Literary versus Epigraphic Sources
4. The Data Collection for This Study
5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 3. The Core Aeolic Isoglosses
1. Introduction
2. The Position of Mycenaean in Classification and Relative Chronology
3. Some Preliminary Assumptions: Exclusion of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Greek Synapomorphic Characters
3.1. PIE *s >
h / #_V, #_r, V_V
3.2. Thematic Present Active Infinitive in *-es-en
3.3. Changes to Nominal and Verbal Accentuation
4. Common Innovations from Proto-Greek
4.1. Labial Reflexes of */kʷ/, */gʷ/, */gʷʰ/
4.2. Reflexes of *r̥ >
or/ro
4.3. Lowering of */i/ >
/e/ / r_
4.4. Syllabicity Loss in Prevocalic */i/: *-iV- >
-i̯V-
4.5. The -εσσι Dative Plural
4.6. The -ων, -οντος Thematic Perfect Active Participle
4.7. The 1.pl Verbal Ending -μεν
4.8. ιἅ 'one' f.sg.
4.9. Patronymic Adjectives
5. Conclusions
Chapter 4. The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses
1. Introduction
2. Isoglosses Shared by Two of Three Dialects
2.1. Lesbian-Thessalian Isoglosses
2.2. Lesbian-Boeotian Isoglosses
2.3. Thessalian-Boeotian Isoglosses
3. Isoglosses Shared with Neighbouring Dialects
3.1. Lesbian-Ionic Isoglosses
3.2. Thessalian-Boeotian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.3. Thessalian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.4. Boeotian Isoglosses Shared with Northwest Greek
3.5. A Boeotian-Attic Isogloss: The Outcome of Palatalized Dentals
4. Conclusions
Chapter 5. A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic
1. Introduction
2. The Probabilistic Method.
2.1. Language Classification versus Dialect Classification: A Problem of Scalarity
2.2. Estimating Repeatability: How Likely Is Independent Innovation?
2.3. Estimating Innovability: What Is the Probability of an Individual Innovation?
2.4. Pulling the Pieces Together: The Operation of the Clade Test
2.5. Clades and Sub-Clades
3. Evaluation: Application of the Clade Test to the Aeolic Data
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Core Aeolic Isoglosses
3.3. Peripheral Isoglosses: Internal Subgrouping
3.4. The Clade Test Results
4. Discussion of Results and Some Relative Chronologies
4.1. Developments to Proto-Aeolic
4.2. Relative Chronology and Internal Subgrouping
4.3. Relative Chronology and the Systems of Infinitives in the Aeolic Dialects
4.4. Relative Chronology and Internal Subgrouping: Conclusions
5. Conclusions
Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1. Catalogue of Epigraphic References
Appendix 2. Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables
Bibliography
Index Verborum et Nominum Propriorum
Index Rerum
Index Locorum.