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Language · DissertationMay2017; thoroughlyrevisedbook2020 · English

Greece’s Labyrinth of Language: A Study in the Early Modern Discovery of Dialect Diversity

by Raf Van Rooy

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Raf Van Rooy investigates how early modern scholars made sense of the diversity of Ancient Greek. Working from Greek texts and inherited classifications, they debated the age, status and relationships of dialects and tried to explain their differences.

The study follows questions about origins, linguistic change, geography and the relationship between Greek dialects and European vernaculars. It places individual arguments within the intellectual history of language study. The complete 2020 monograph preserves its source discussions, bibliography and indexes.

Raf Van Rooy. Language Science Press,2020; based on2017dissertation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3478142. CC BY4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Cover/design: Ulrike Harbort. Typesetting: Nina Markl and Felix Kopecky. Original credits retained.