Bakker Egbert J. (ed.) A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 704 p. — ISBN: 1405153261A comprehensive account of the language of Ancient Greek civilization in a single volume, with contributions from leading international scholars covering the historical, geographical, sociolinguistic, and literary perspectives of the language.
A collection of 36 original essays by a team of international scholars
Treats the survival and transmission of Ancient Greek
Includes discussions on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmaticsList of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Symbols Used
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works
Abbreviations of Modern Sources
Linguistic and Other AbbreviationsThe Sources
Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets
Phoinikeia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language
Inscriptions
Papyri
The Manuscript Tradition
The Language
Phonology
Morphology and Word Formation
Semantics and Vocabulary
Syntax
Pragmatics: Speech and Text
Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections
Greek and Proto-Indo-European
Mycenaean Greek
Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages
Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period
Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages
Greek in Egypt
Jewish and Christian Greek
Greek and Latin Bilingualism
Greek in Context
Register Variation
Female Speech
Forms of Address and Markers of Status
Technical Languages: Science and Medicine
Greek as Literature
Inherited Poetics
Language and Meter
Literary Dialects
The Greek of Epic
The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry
The Greek of Athenian Tragedy
Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory
The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic
The Study of Greek
Greek Philosophers on Language
The Birth of Grammar in Greece
Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar
Beyond Antiquity
Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past
Medieval and Early Modern Greek
Modern Greek