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The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek

Posted: May 20th, 2023, 6:30 pm
by James Spinti
Open access:
The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek
Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache
Series: Leiden Studies in Indo-European, Volume: 22
Author: Lucien van Beek
How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as τέτρατος beside τέταρτος originate?
In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.

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Re: The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek

Posted: June 8th, 2023, 10:49 am
by Matthew Longhorn
Nice, thanks James :)
Good to see someone else posting books here!