[B-Greek] Nature of Byzantine/Later Greek?

Daniel and Rachel King dan_rach at ntlworld.com
Wed Apr 30 17:03:59 EDT 2003


Geoffrey Horrocks, Greek: a history of the language and its speakers, 1997 ?
I think Horrocks covers the whole history of the language, in brief, but
without passing over the technicalities of phonetics, lexicography etc. At
least he would point to more detailed studies also.

Dan King

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> I've seen a number of discussions of the differences between classical and
> koine Greek, and a few comparing koine and modern Greek, but nothing
> regarding the changes in the language in the 4th-15th centuries. (Some
list
> koine as 3d C. BC - 6th C. AD [e.g., Smyth]; others use 3d C AD as cut-off
> and list 4th-15th as Byzantine Greek.) Whatever ones calls it, what are
the
> changes taking place in these later periods? Anyone have a reference to a
> discussion of this (published or web)? Or a list of features/changes?
>
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