{"product_id":"the-phonological-interpretation-of-ancient-vit-bubenik-9781442651654","title":"The Phonological Interpretation of Ancient Greek: A Pandialectal Analysis","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vit Bubenik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442651652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442651654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.54d","brand":"Vit Bubenik","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489263702271,"sku":"9781442651654","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_126c3b44-fd6d-4857-890a-0e2f695b5d33.jpg?v=1736953042","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-phonological-interpretation-of-ancient-vit-bubenik-9781442651654","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}