This book by Professor Henri Tonnet is a concise Introduction to the History of the Modern Greek language. The author examines, with deep knowledge of the sources, the most significant milestones in the evolutionary path of Modern Greek, which was shaped over a long period starting around the 2nd century AD and concluding with the establishment of the Modern Greek state.
The introductory chapters on the History of Greek writing and the characteristics of the ancient language help the reader understand the conditions under which the Hellenistic Koine was formed and, in turn, the Byzantine and Modern Greek languages, culminating in the language question.
The treatment of the individual periods is made particularly engaging by the presentation of representative texts that are analyzed from phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntactic, and lexical perspectives.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Henri Tonnet
- Publisher
- D.N. Papadimas
- Genre
- Books On Writing, Linguistics Books
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 217
- Publication Date
- 1995
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- Original Title
- Histoire du grec moderne
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789602063644
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