Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
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Subject: Language And Linguistics
General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis
Associate Editors: Vit Bubenik, Emilio Crespo, Chris Golston, Alexandra Lianeri, Silvia Luraghi, Stephanos Matthaios
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) is a unique work that brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is an indispensable research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.
Subscriptions: brill.comIndex terms are grouped together based on their first letter: A - Z. The term is displayed in bold. Proper names begin with a capital letter. Index terms that coincide with an entry title are linked to that entry and presented in bold blue letters. Foreign and transliterated terms, titles of works and author names are italicized (Wellentheorie; abjad; Corpus Hippocraticum).
Select the first letter of the index term:
- A
- Ablaut (Apophony, Gradation)
- Absolute Construction see Genitive Absolute
- Abstract Nouns
- Accentuation
- Accommodation
- Accusative
- Achaean
- Action Nouns
- Activa Tantum
- Active
- Addressee
- Adjectives (Morphological Aspects of)
- Adjuncts
- Adoption of the Ionic alphabet in Attica
- Adpositional Phrase
- Adpositions (Prepositions)
- Adverbial Clause see Clause
- Adverbial Constituents
- Adverbs
- Adverbs (Morphological Aspects of)
- Aeolic Dialects
- Affix see Morphology
- Affricates see Consonants
- Agency and Causation
- Agent Nouns
- Agreement
- Aischrology
- Allegory (allegoría), Ancient Theories of
- Alphabet, Descendants of
- Alphabet, The Origin of the Greek
- Alphabetical Dictionaries: From Antiquity to the Byzantine Period
- Anagrams see Poetic Language
- Analogy
- Anaphoric Processes
- Anaptyxis
- Anastrophe see Prepositions in Homer
- Ancient Bidialectalism and Bilingualism
- Ancient Greek Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
- Ancient Philosophers on Language
- Ancient Prose Rhythm
- Antroponyms see Personal Names
- Aorist
- Aorist (aóristos), Ancient Theories of
- Aorist Formation
- Aphaeresis
- Apocope
- Apposition
- Arabic Tradition, Translation
- Arcadian
- Arcado-Cypriot
- Archaisms in Modern Dialects
- Argolic
- Argument Clause
- Article see Determiners
- Asianism
- Aspect (and Tense)
- Aspiration
- Assibilation
- Assimilation
- Asyndeton see Coordination (includes Asyndeton)
- Attic
- Attic Declension
- Attic Reversion
- Atticism
- Attitudes to Language
- Attraction (Mood, Case etc.)
- Augment
- Auxiliaries
- B
- Balkan Sprachbund: Early Evidence in Greek
- Bartoli's Law
- Barytonesis see Accentuation
- Beneficiary
- Bilingualism in Hellenistic Egypt
- Bilingualism, Diglossia and Literacy in First-Century Jewish Palestine
- Blass’s Law see Ancient Prose Rhythm
- Boeotian
- Bridges
- Byzantine Phase and Reception of Ancient Greek, The
- C
- Caesurae
- Caland System and Greek
- Calques
- Case (ptôsis), Ancient Theories of
- Case (including Syncretism)
- Case Syncretism (Morphological Aspects of)
- Causative Formation
- Chiasm
- Choral Poetry, Diction of
- 'Christian' Greek
- Christian Greek Vocabulary
- Classical Greek Morphology (Survey)
- Clause
- Clitic Group
- Clitics
- Coalescence see Merger
- Code-Mixing
- Code-Switching
- Cognitive Linguistics and Greek
- Coherence
- Cohesion
- Collective/Mass Nouns
- Color Terms
- Comedy, Diction of
- Comitative
- Comparative Clauses
- Comparative Method
- Comparison
- Compensatory Lengthening
- Complementation
- Compound Nouns
- Compound Tenses (Hellenistic Greek)
- Compounding/Derivation/Construction Morphology
- Computational Linguistics and Greek
- Concordances/Indices/Reverse Dictionaries
- Conditionals
- Conjunction Reduction
- Conjunctions (Non-Subordinating)
- Conjunctions (Subordinating)
- Consecutio Temporum et Modorum
- Consecutive Clauses
- Consonant Changes
- Consonants
- Construction Grammar and Greek
- Contact through Translation
- Contract Verbs
- Contraction
- Coordination (includes Asyndeton)
- Corpus Linguistics and Greek
- Cowgill’s Law
- Crasis
- Cretan
- Cretan Hieroglyphic Script
- Curse Tablets
- Cypriot
- Cypriot Syllabary
- Cypro-Minoan Syllabary
- Cyrenaean
- D
- Databases and Dictionaries [Papyrology and Epigraphy included]
- Dative
- Declension/Conjugation (klísis), Ancient Theories of
- Definiteness/Definite Article
- Defixiones see Curse Tablets
- Deixis (including 1st and 2nd Person)
- Deixis in Linguistics and Poetics
- Denominal Verbs
- Dependency Grammar and Greek
- Derivational Morphology
- Derveni Papyrus
- Desideratives
- Determiners
- Developments in Medieval and Modern Greek
- Deverbal Nouns see Abstract Nouns
- Deverbative Verbs
- Dialectal Convergence
- Dialectology (diálektos), Ancient Theories of
- Dialects, Classification of
- Diathesis (diáthesis), Ancient Theories of
- Diathesis/Voice (Morphology of)
- Dictionaries of Ancient Greek
- Dictionaries of Dialects: From Antiquity to the Byzantine Period
- Dictionaries of Onomastics: From Antiquity to the Byzantine Period
- Dictionaries of Scientific Vocabulary: Antiquity and Byzantine Period
- Digamma see Semivowels
- Diminutives/Augmentatives (Syntax and Morphology)
- Diphthongization
- Diphthongs
- Dipylon Vase Inscription
- Direct Object
- Direct/Indirect Discourse
- Direct/Indirect Speech
- Discourse Analysis and Greek
- Disjuncts
- Dissimilation
- Doric
- Doric Accentuation
- Drama Translation
- Dramatic Meter
- Dual
- E
- Elean (and Olympia)
- Elegy, Diction of
- Elision
- Epanalepsis
- Epenthesis
- Epic Diction
- Epic Meter
- Epichoric Alphabets see Local Scripts
- Epigram, Diction of
- Epigraphy
- Erasmian Pronunciation
- Eteocretan
- Eteocypriot
- Etymological Dictionaries: From Antiquity to the Byzantine Period
- Etymological Dictionaries: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century
- Etymological Dictionaries: Theory of Greek Etymology
- Etymology (etumología), Ancient Theories of
- Euphemism and Dysphemism
- Experiential Constructions
- F
- Figures (skhḗmata), Ancient Theories of
- Film Adaptation and Translation
- Focus
- Foot
- Formation of Doric Koines, The
- Forms of Address and Sociolinguistic Variation
- Formulaic Language
- Formulas
- Functional Grammar and Greek
- Future Perfect see Verbal System (Tense, Aspect, Mood)
- Future Tense see Verbal System (Tense, Aspect, Mood)
- G
- Gender
- Genitive
- Genitive Absolute
- Gerund (Verbal Noun)
- Gerundive (Verbal Adjective)
- Glides
- Glottalic Theory and Greek
- Gnomes
- Gnomic Aorist
- Gortyn Code
- Government Binding and Greek
- Gradation see Ablaut (Apophony, Gradation)
- Graffiti
- Grammaticalization see Syntactic Change
- Grassmann’s Law
- Greek and Anatolian Languages
- Greek and Arabic (Early Contacts)
- Greek and Aramaic
- Greek and Armenian
- Greek and Carian
- Greek and Celtic
- Greek and Egyptian, and Coptic
- Greek and Etruscan
- Greek and Hebrew
- Greek and Illyrian
- Greek and Indian Languages
- Greek and Iranian
- Greek and Latin
- Greek and Lycian
- Greek and Lydian
- Greek and Phrygian
- Greek and Semitic Languages (Early Contacts)
- Greek and Syriac
- Greek and Thracian
- Greek Historiography, Translation
- Greek in Sicily in Late Antiquity
- Greek Lexicon in Western Languages
- Greek Lexicon, Structure and Origin of
- Greek Loanwords in Coptic
- Greek Loanwords in Geez
- Greek Loanwords in Hebrew and Aramaic
- Greek Loanwords in Slavic
- Greek Loanwords in Syriac
- Greek Lyric Poetry, Translation
- Greek Novel, Translation
- Greek Philosophy, Translation
- Greek Writing Systems
- Greek/Latin Bilingualism
- Grounding of Information
- H
- Haplology
- Hellenism(os) see Linguistic Correctness
- Hellenistic Literary Prose
- Hellenistic Poetry, Diction of
- Heteroclitics
- Hiatus
- Historical Present
- History of Teaching of Ancient Greek in Germany
- Homer, Translation
- Hyperbaton
- Hyphaeresis
- Hypocoristics see Diminutives/Augmentatives (Syntax and Morphology)
- Hypotaxis see Subordination
- I
- Iambic Poetry, Diction of
- Imperative
- Impersonal Verbs
- Impersonal Verbs/Constructions
- Inchoatives/Inceptives
- Indirect Object
- Indo-European Historical Background
- Indo-European Linguistic Background
- Infinitives (Morphology of)
- Infinitives (Syntax)
- Infix see Morphology
- Inflectional Classes
- Information Structure and Greek
- Inscriptions see Epigraphy
- Instrumental
- Insular Doric
- Intensifiers
- Interjections
- Internal Reconstruction
- Intonational Phrase
- Intralingual Translation into Modern Greek
- Ionic
- Iotacism see Vowel Fronting
- L
- Labiovelars
- Laconian, Messenian
- Language and Variation in Greece
- Language Change
- Language Contact
- Language of Gods vs. Language of Man see Poetic Language
- Language Play and Translation
- Language Policies
- Laryngeal Changes
- Late Antiquity Poetry
- Late Antiquity Prose
- Latin Loanwords in Greek
- Law of Limitation
- Legal Terminology
- Lemnian
- Length
- Lesbian (and Asian Aeolic)
- Lesbian Accentuation
- Leveling see Analogy
- Lexical Aspect (Aktionsart)
- Lexical Change
- Lexical Fields Theory and Greek
- Lexical-Functional Grammar and Greek
- Lexicography, History of
- Lindeman's Law see Vowel Changes
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Linguistic Correctness (hellenismós), Ancient Theories of
- Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic
- Literary Prose
- Local Scripts
- Lyric Meter
- Lyric Poetry, Diction of
- M
- Macedonian
- Magna Graecia, Dialects
- Manner
- Media Tantum
- Medical Vocabulary
- Medieval Translation of Greek Texts
- Mediopassive
- Merger
- Messenian see Laconian, Messenian
- Metaphor
- Metaphor (metaphorá), Ancient Theories of
- Metathesis
- Metrical Laws
- Metrics
- Metrics (métron), Ancient Theories of
- Metron
- Meyer's Law see Ancient Prose Rhythm
- Middle
- Minima
- Modifiers
- Monophthongization
- Mood (énklisis), Ancient Theories of
- Mood and Modality
- Moras
- Morphological Change
- Movable Consonants
- Movable s
- Mycenaean Scribes see Scribes, Mycenaean
- Mycenaean Script and Language
- N
- Names of Months
- 'Narten' Presents
- Nasal Presents
- Negation
- Negation (Morphology)
- Neogrammarians
- Nestor’s Cup
- Neutralization see Conjunction Reduction
- New Testament
- Nomina Actionis see Action Nouns
- Nomina Agentis see Agent Nouns
- Nominal System (Gender, Number, Case)
- Nominative
- Non-Canonical Subjects
- Northwest Greek (and Dodona)
- Noun (ónoma), Ancient Theories of
- Noun Phrase
- Null Anaphora
- Number
- Numerals
- P
- Palaeography
- Palatalizations
- Pamphylian
- Papyri, Language of
- Papyrology
- Parataxis see Coordination (includes Asyndeton)
- Participle
- Participles (Morphological Aspects of)
- Particles (Formal Features)
- Particles (Syntactic Features)
- Passiva Tantum
- Passive (Morphology)
- Passive (Syntax)
- Patient and Theme
- Patronymics
- Perfect
- Perfect, Formation of
- Period
- Personal Names
- Phaistos Disc
- Philological-Grammatical Tradition in Ancient Linguistics
- Phonetic Law
- Phonetics
- Phonological Change
- Phonological Phrase
- Phonology (Survey)
- Phonotactics
- Phytonyms (Names of Trees)
- Pitch
- Pluperfect see Perfect
- Plural/Pluralia Tantum
- Poetic Language
- Politeness/Courtesy Expressions
- Polysemy
- Possession
- Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice
- Post-Homeric Epic Poetry, Translation
- Postpositives
- Predicative Constituents
- Prefix see Morphology
- Pre-Greek Languages
- Pre-Greek Substrate
- Prepositions see Adpositions (Prepositions)
- Prepositions in Homer
- Prepositives
- Present Tense
- Preverbs
- Pronominal System
- Pronouns (Demonstrative, Interrogative, Indefinite, Relative)
- Prosodic Minimality see Minima
- Prosodic Word
- Prosody
- Prothesis
- Prothetic Vowel see Prothesis
- Proto-Greek and Common Greek
- Proverbs
- Psilosis
- Punctuation see Epigraphy
- Puns
- Purpose Clauses
- R
- Recipient
- Reduplicated Presents
- Reduplication
- Reflexives
- Relative Chronology
- Relative Clauses
- Relative Tense
- Renaissance, Translation
- Resonants see Consonants
- Responsion
- Rhetorical Tradition in Ancient Linguistics
- Rhodian
- Rhotacism
- Riddles
- Rix's Law see Laryngeal Changes
- Roman Translation of Greek Texts
- Root Structure (and Ablaut)
- Rosetta Stone
- S
- Sandhi
- Saronic
- Saussure's Law see Vowel Changes
- Schist Fragments from the Academy
- Schwa Secundum
- Schwebeablaut
- Scientific Vocabulary
- Scribes, Mycenaean
- Secondary Articulation see Palatalizations
- Secret Language/Codes/Magical Language
- Semantic Change
- Semiotics in Antiquity see Ancient Philosophers on Language
- Semitic Loanwords in Greek
- Semivowels
- Sentence
- Sentence/Utterance (lógos), Ancient Theories of
- Septuagint
- Sicily, Dialects in
- Siever's Law see Vowel Changes
- Song and Recitation
- Sonority Hierarchy see Phonology (Survey)
- Sotera Rule
- South-East Greek
- Space (Adpositions)
- Space (Cases)
- Spirantization
- Split
- Stative (and Middle/Medium) Verbs
- Stress
- Structural Linguistics and Greek
- Style (léxis), Ancient Theories of
- Subject
- Subjunctive (Morphology of)
- Subordination
- Suffix see Morphology
- Suppletion
- Syllabic Consonants
- Syllable Weight
- Syllables
- Syncope
- Synizesis
- Synonymica: From Antiquity to the Byzantine Period
- Syntactic Change
- Syntax (súntaxis), Ancient Theories of
- Syntax-Phonology Interface
- T
- Taboo Words
- Teaching of Ancient Greek in Italy
- Teaching of Ancient Greek, Teaching Methods
- Temporal Clauses
- Tense (khrónos), Ancient Theories of
- Tense and Aspect from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine
- Tense/Aspect
- Text Linguistics and Greek
- Theater Translation and Performance
- Thematic and Athematic Verbs
- Thematic Vowel, Stem Formation
- Theonyms (Names of Gods)
- Thessalian
- Time
- Tmesis
- Topic
- Toponyms
- Tragedy, Diction of
- Transition from the Local Alphabets to the Ionic Script
- Transitivity
- Translation in Non-Western Traditions: Concepts and Models
- Translation of Greek Texts in Late Antiquity
- Tropes (trópoi), Ancient Theories of
- Truncation
- Tsakonian
- Typology of Greek
- V
- Variation in Mycenaean Greek
- Vendryes' Law
- Verb (rhêma), Ancient Theories of
- Verb Phrase
- Verba Dicendi
- Verba Sentiendi
- Verbal Adjectives
- Verbal System (Tense, Aspect, Mood)
- Verbal Valency
- Verse
- Virtutes Dicendi (aretaì léxeos) see Style (léxis), Ancient Theories of
- Vocative
- Voice
- Voicing
- Vowel Changes
- Vowel Fronting
- Vowels