E-Book, Englisch, Band 57, 347 Seiten
Bubenik Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-90-272-7854-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, Band 57, 347 Seiten
Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
ISBN: 978-90-272-7854-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This study concentrates on the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the history of Greek language. It focuses on the gradual contamination of classical dialects by the Hellenistic Koine, their disappearance, the range of intraregional variation, and the process of Koinization from the angle of interregional adjustments. The author draws on recent sociolinguistic methods dealing with lexical and social diffusion of linguistic change, statistical analysis, and research into bilingualism and diglossia.