Nεοελληνικές διάλεκτοι [Modern Greek dialects]

Chr. Tzitzilis (ed.)

Μοντερνισμός και νέα κριτική
[Modernism and the new Criticism]

A. W. Litz, L. Menand, L. Rainey (eds)

In this two-volume collective work of approximately 1.000 pages, specialists from Greece and other countries examine the Modern Greek dialects from a fresh, radically revised perspective. The dialects are situated in their geographical and historical context, their key characteristics are identified, and their phonetics, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary are fully described. The study also contains annotated dialect texts.

The seventh volume of the nine-volume series entitled The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, which provides a comprehensive historical account of Western literary criticism, from classical antiquity to the present day, is dedicated to modernism and new criticism.

Ινδοευρωπαϊκή ποίηση και μυθολογία

[Indo-European poetry and myth]

M. L. West

Oρθογραφικό και κλιτικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής

[A spelling and inflectional dictionary of Modern Greek]

A. Tzivanopoulou (ed.)

This book of the brilliant scholar M. L. West, based on various texts from different Indo-European languages, e.g. Sanskrit, Hittite, Ancient Greek etc., aims at reconstructing the poetry of the Indo-Europeans and their mythology.

This dictionary is the first one to provide information simultaneously about the spelling and the inflection of thousands of words in Modern Greek by referring readers to tables in which the inflection system of the language is presented.

Ο έπαινος των γυναικών [The praise of women]

S. Stavrakopoulou (ed.)

Ανακάλημα της Κωνσταντινόπολης

[A lament of Constantinople]

Emm. Kriaras (ed.)

The praise of women is an anonymous Cretan folk poem of the late 15th century with anti-women, satirical, and, at times, blunt content. Commenting on even novel cultural values of its time regarding the social status of women, the poem presents the vices and the inappropriate behavior of virgins, married women and widows by defining what is proper and what is not, what is acceptable and what is not.

A lament of Constantinople is a relatively short (but quite longer than other historical folk songs of its kind) Cypriot lament in verse for the political and other tragedies that befell the inhabitants of Constantinople and, generally, the Greek people during the fall of 1453 and soon thereafter. This is probably the first in a long line of oral and written laments, in verse and prose, for Constantinople and Byzantium, which extend well into the 17th century and transform the historical event into a living tradition.

Μαρίνος Φαλιέρος, Λόγοι διδακτικοί του πατρός προς τον υιόν [Marinos Falieros, Didactic speeches from father to son]

W. Bakker & A. van Gemert (eds)

Eτυμολογικό λεξικό της αρχαίας ελληνικής [Etymological dictionary of the Ancient Greek language]

P. Chantraine

The Didactic speeches from father to son is a short, didactic/exhortatory folk poem by the well-known Venetian-Cretan poet M. Falieros, probably written in the first quarter of the 15th century. The poet combines Christian teachings with specific instructions on how family affairs should be managed. The poem as well as Falieros’ work in its totality demonstrates his familiarity with Western-european (mostly Italian and Latin) literature of his time.

This most authoritative etymological dictionary of Ancient Greek lists the lexicon of Ancient Greek in groups of related words. Moreover, the dictionary provides an overall picture of the history of the lexicon, which includes the diverse semantic developments that took place over time, the derivatives and the compounds that were formed etc. The Greek edition incorporates several improvements over the (second) French edition of 2009, such as references to the latest editions of Ancient Greek writers. In addition, the section of the lexicon that refers to the survival of Ancient Greek words in Modern Greek has been radically revised.

Εισαγωγή στη γλωσσική επαφή

[Language contact: An introduction]

S. Thomason

Aρχαίες ελληνικές διάλεκτοι [Ancient Greek dialects]

Α. Bartoněk & Chr. Tzitzilis (eds)

There has always been contact among languages in every part of the world. The book discusses the consequences – linguistic, social and political – of this contact: loans from language to language, diglossia and multilingualism on an individual and on a social level, the formation of sprachbund, the birth of new languages such as pidgins and creoles, the endangered languages and language death.

A collective volume of approximately 1.000 pages, with contributions from the major experts in the field of Ancient Greek dialectology. The book contains a description of the dialects, and presents elements of their grammar as well as more recent findings regarding the investigation of Ancient Greek in the light of Medieval and Modern Greek dialects.

Eγχειρίδιο της μυκηναϊκής ελληνικής

[A handbook on Mycenaean Greek]

A. Bartoněk

This handbook, written by the leading Czech scholar Α. Bartoněk, contains invaluable information not only about the dialect of Mycenaean Greek itself (its phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicon), but also about its position relative to the other Ancient Greek dialects, its writing system, and the content of its texts.