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Indo-European Linguistic Background
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Abstract

As a member of the Indo-European family of languages, Greek shares a number of inherited features with other languages of the family, but it also shows many developments which are characteristic of Greek alone or of a particular group of languages. This entry offers a discussion of the evolution of the hypothesized PIE grammatical system in Ancient Greek.

1. Introduction

Greek is a …

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Georgios K. Giannakis, “Indo-European Linguistic Background”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis. Consulted online on 29 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000187>
First published online: 2013



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