Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a sociolinguistic area

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 wit...

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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.

HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN GREECE AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AREA 1
Editorial page 2
Title page 3
Copyright page 4
Table of Contents 5
Illustrations 9
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HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN GREECE AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AREA 1
Editorial page 2
Title page 3
Copyright page 4
Table of Contents 5
Illustrations 9
Preface 13
Introduction 17
0.1 The Greek language community in the 5th c. B.C. 17
0.2 Expansion of Attic and the rise of a new standard language 23
0.3 Definition of 'Koine' 24
0.4 Synchronic parallels \u2014 Modern Arabic and Modern Greek Koine 26
0.5 The system of linguistic varieties in the Hellenistic period 32
NOTES 33
Chapter 1. Methodology 35
1.1 Inscriptional corpus 35
1.2 Written versus spoken language 39
1.3 The study of variation in language 43
1.4 Statistical analysis 49
1.5 Stylistic variation in inscriptional sources \u2014 The classification of inscriptions 55
1.6 Linguistic characterization of regional inscriptions written during Hellenistic (300-150 B.C.) and Greco-Roman (150 B.C-300 A.D.) times 58
NOTES 61
Chapter 2. The Hellenistic social and linguistic context 63
2.1 The Hellenistic monarchies 63
2.2 Political and social conditions in the Greek city states 67
2.3 The Greeks of the Hellenistic diaspora 70
2.4 The natives in the eastern Hellenistic monarchies 72
2.5 Religious orientalization of the Greeks 74
2.6 Greek education 76
2.7 Substratum interference 80
2.8 Bidialectalism and bilingualism 83
NOTES 87
Chapter 3. Decline of Ancient Greek dialects 89
3.1 'Strict' Doric dialects 89
3.1.1 Laconia 89
3.1.2 Messenia 92
3.1.3 Cyrenaica 94
3.1.4 Crete 95
3.2 'Middle' Doric dialects 106
3.2.1 Aegean Doric dialects 107
3.2.2 Western Argolis 122
3.3 'Mild' Doric dialects 126
3.3.1 Saronic Gulf 126
3.3.2 North West Greece 133
3.4 Elis 150
3.5 Achaea 152
3.6 Aeolic dialects 154
3.6.1 Boeotia 155
3.6.2 Thessaly 158
3.6.3 Lesbos 163
3.6.4 Aeolic littoral of Asia minor 166
3.7 Arcado-Cypriot dialects 178
3.7.1 Arcadia 178
3.7.2 Cyprus 183
3.8 Pamphylia 186
NOTES 188
Chapter 4. Growth of various forms of Koine 191
4.1 Attic-Ionic Koine 191
4.1.1 Regional and social varieties 191
4.1.2 Phonology of the Attic dialect in the Hellenistic period 198
4.2 Aegean Doric Koine 209
4.3 Achaean Doric Koine 211
4.4 North West Doric Koine 212
4.4.1 Local standard of Delphi 214
4.5 Egyptian Koine 230
4.6 Eastern (Syro-Palestinean) Koine 243
4.7 Asia Minor Koine 253
4.7.1 Local standards of Magnesia, Pergamon, Priene and Miletos 259
NOTES 268
Chapter 5. Hellenistic Koine in contact with other languages 273
5.1 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Egyptian 273
5.2 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Phoenician, Aramaic and Arabic 280
5.3 Hellenistic Koine in contact with aboriginal languages of Asia Minor 292
NOTES 297
Chapter 6. Conclusions 301
6.1 Mechanisms of language change in Hellenistic and Roman Greece 301
6.2 Dialect consciousness and koineizing habits 303
6.3 Survival of Ancient Greek dialects and the formation of Doric Koines 309
6.4 The rise of a pan-Hellenic standard language and the sociolinguistic mechanisms of its spatial diffusion 311
6.5 Epilogue 316
Select bibliography 321
Index of names 333
Subject index 345
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