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

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Wed Apr 30 19:05:49 EDT 2003


At 21:52 30/04/2003, bgreek at ntresources.com wrote:

>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?

I see that you have already been given the best reference I know:

Geoffrey Horrocks, Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers 
(London: Longman, 1997).

but you might also like to look up:
E.M Thompson, A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography,
This is a reprint by Ares (Chicago) with no date that I can see, of the 
original of 1901




Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie




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