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List of Tables | |
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List of Charts | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Symbols | |
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Introduction | |
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Evidence for the Greek Accent | |
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Introduction | |
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Accents without accent marks | |
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Grammarians | |
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Papyri | |
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Fragments of ancient Greek music | |
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The manuscript tradition | |
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Early medieval Greek accentuation | |
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Conclusions | |
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Some Background on Greek Accentuation | |
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Introduction | |
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Definition of accent | |
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Phonetic nature of the Greek accent | |
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Domain of the Greek accent | |
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The use of the three accent marks | |
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'Fixed' versus 'free' accent | |
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Limitations on the position of the Greek accent | |
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Final diphthongs | |
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Possible positions for the Greek accent | |
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Unaccented words | |
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The accentuation of dialects other than the Koine | |
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Extent and consistency of our information on the accentuation of Hellenistic Koine | |
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Continuity and Change in Greek Accentuation | |
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Introduction | |
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Continuity | |
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Greek innovations | |
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A Brief History of Scholarship on the Greek Accent | |
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Introduction | |
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From antiquity to the Renaissance | |
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From Erasmus to 1800 | |
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Data gatherers of the 1800s: Gottling and Chandler | |
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Comparative treatments of the Greek accent | |
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Treatments of historical problems within Greek | |
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Generative treatments of Greek accentuation | |
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Conclusion | |
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Introduction to Part II | |
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Irregularity in Greek accentuation: why in need of explanation? | |
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Synchronic characteristics of the Greek accent system (i): the status of recessive accentuation | |
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Synchronic characteristics of the Greek accent system (ii): the role of morphology | |
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Exceptions to morphologically conditioned accent rules | |
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Words with Suffix -[rho]o- | |
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Formation | |
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Comparative evidence | |
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Descriptive accounts | |
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Analysis of data | |
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Words with Suffix -[tau]o- | |
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Formation of adjectives | |
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Formation of nouns | |
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Data included and excluded | |
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Comparative evidence | |
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Descriptive accounts | |
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Analysis of data | |
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Words with Suffix -[nu]o- | |
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Formation | |
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Comparative evidence | |
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Descriptive accounts | |
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Analysis of data | |
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Words with Suffix -[lambda]o- | |
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Formation | |
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Comparative evidence | |
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Describing the accentuation of words in -[lambda]o- | |
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Evaluation of previous claims and summary of results | |
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Preliminary Conclusions | |
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Introduction | |
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Nouns with suffixes -[rho]o-, -[tau]o-, and -[nu]o- | |
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Words with suffix -[lambda]o- | |
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Words with Suffix -[mu]o- | |
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Formation | |
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Comparative evidence | |
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Problems to be considered | |
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Descriptive accounts | |
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Chronology | |
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Weight of the penultimate syllable | |
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Abstractness versus concreteness of meaning | |
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Synchronic transparency of derivation | |
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Root vocalism | |
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Conclusions | |
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Complex Caland Formations | |
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Introduction | |
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Formation of adjectives in -[iota mu]o- | |
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Formation of adjectives in -[upsilon mu]o- | |
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Formation of adjectives in -[iota nu]o- | |
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Formation of adjectives in -[upsilon nu]o- | |
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Explaining the recessive accent of adjectives in -[iota mu]o-, -[upsilon mu]o-, -[iota nu]o-, and -[upsilon nu]o- | |
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Further Greek evidence for recessive accentuation in complex Caland formations | |
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Comparative evidence for the accentuation of complex Caland formations and evidence from ablaut | |
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Conclusion | |
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Summary and Further Consequences | |
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Summary of results | |
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Further applications | |
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Cross-linguistic parallels | |
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Consequences for Indo-European accentology | |
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Consequences for linguistic theory | |
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Consequences for the understanding of accentual change | |
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A footnote: do the conclusions reached here imply the literal existence of synchronic morphophonological rules? | |
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Appendices | |
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Data for Chapter 6 | |
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Adjectives with suffix -[rho]o- | |
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Nouns with suffix -[rho]o- | |
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Data for Chapter 7 | |
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Adjectives with suffix -[tau]o- | |
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Nouns with suffix -[tau]o- | |
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Data for Chapter 8 | |
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Adjectives with suffix -[nu]o- | |
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Nouns with suffix -[nu]o- | |
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Data for Chapter 9 | |
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Adjectives with suffix -[lambda]o- | |
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Nouns with suffix -[lambda]o- | |
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Data for Chapter 11: Nouns with suffix -[mu]o- | |
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References | |
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Glossary of Technical Terms | |
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Index Locorum | |
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Word Index | |
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Subject Index | |