{"product_id":"the-phonological-interpretation-of-ancient-greek-a-pandialectal-analysis-9781442651654","title":"The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek: A Pandialectal Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vit Bubenik\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient Languages - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume treats systematically the variation found in the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esuccessive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esynchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebetween the systems of different dialects, with a diachronic statement of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eunproductive and mostly pan-Hellenic shifts.\u003cp\u003eProfessor Buben�k presents \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea phonetic description and structural phonemic analysis of the best-known \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003evariant--Classical Attic of the 5th century B.C.--and displays and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003econtrasts the vocalic and consonantal inventories of all the other dialects \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eclassified according to their major groups. Derivational histories of individual \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edialects are examined in their juxtaposition, to ascertain which rules are shared by \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003evarious dialects and which are dialect-specific. The pandialectal framework enables \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuben�k to capture various relationships among genetically related dialects \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewhich are missed in atomistic and static treatments, and to show more convincingly \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe extent of their similarity and their systemic cohesion.\u003cp\u003eThis volume makes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea significant contribution to both classical scholarship and current theory of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elanguage change by offering new analyses of a variety of phonological and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emorphophonemic problems presented by a dead language and its dialects.","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46894121320599,"sku":"9781442651654","price":3850.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781442651654.webp?v=1770321737","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-phonological-interpretation-of-ancient-greek-a-pandialectal-analysis-9781442651654","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}