The Greek language has a written history of more than 3,000 years. While the classical, Hellenistic and modern periods of the language are well researched, the intermediate stages are much less well known, but of great interest to those curious to know how a language changes over time. The geographical area where Greek has been spoken stretches from the Aegean Islands to the Black Sea and from Southern Italy and Sicily to the Middle East, largely corresponding to former territories of the Byzantine Empire and its successor states. This Grammar draws on a comprehensive corpus of literary and non-literary texts written in various forms of the vernacular to document the processes of change between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries, processes which can be seen as broadly comparable to the emergence of the Romance languages from Medieval Latin. Regional and dialectal variation in phonology and morphology are treated in detail.

The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek 4 Volume Hardback Set

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Horrocks, Geoffrey

Holton, David

Janssen, Marjolijne

Lendari, Tina

Manolessou, Io

Toufexis, Notis

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

Generative Grammar (Longman Linguistics Library)

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek (Volume 1)

Lentari, Stamatina

Toufexis, Panagiotis

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. • Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language • Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia • Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages

History

Europe

Wiley/Blackwell

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field.Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.

The Blackwell History of the Latin Language

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and Vergil, and examines the impact of the spread of spoken Latin through the Roman Empire. 
<ul> <li>The first book in English in more than 50 years to provide comprehensive coverage of the history of the Latin language 
</li> <li>Gives a full account of the transformation of the language in the context of the rise and fall of Ancient Rome 
</li> <li>Presents up-to-date commentary on the key linguistic issues 
</li> <li>Makes use of carefully selected texts, many of which have only recently come to light 
</li> <li>Includes maps and glossary as well as fully translated and annotated sample texts that illustrate the different stages of the language 
</li> <li>Accessible to readers without a formal knowledge of Latin or linguistics</li> </ul>

Literature & Fiction

Clackson, James

History & Criticism

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