http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/posts/tags/classical+greek/page/1/ My blog about linguistics en Vox Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:54:27 +0200 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss classical greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/little-more-on-greek-j.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/little-more-on-greek-j.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/little-more-on-greek-j.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:54:27 +0200 The Proto-Greek /j/ remains a fascinating phoneme. In the Iliad there's a small thing about this letter which is especially mysterious.When the Proto-Greek */j/ became /h/ it somehow it lost its consonantality (Neoglisms are there to use them!). H... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/little-more-on-greek-j.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398b372550001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics homer odyssey iliad indo-european classical greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-on-proto-greek-j-being-%C3%A7.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-on-proto-greek-j-being-%C3%A7.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-on-proto-greek-j-being-%C3%A7.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:07:31 +0200 I'll interrupt my little series on Tocharian B (which I will continue) to talk a bit more about my theory that maybe /j/ in Proto-Greek was voiceless rather than voiced. I came to this conclusion completely without the intention to do so when I st... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/more-on-proto-greek-j-being-%C3%A7.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398afa00f0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics sanskrit indo-european classical greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/greek-twins.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/greek-twins.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/greek-twins.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:00:55 +0200 I'm on a bit of a Greek spree at the moment, because next week I'm starting Homeric Greek and historical grammar of Greek, so I'm just getting back into it. Today I'd like to talk about Greek geminates and especially the absence of those in the s... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/greek-twins.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398a601100003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics attic greek indo-european classical greek ionic greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/what-happened-to-my-waw.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/what-happened-to-my-waw.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/what-happened-to-my-waw.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:05:36 +0200 Today I was thinking about classical Greek dialects, and especially what happened to the 'waw' or digamma 'ϝ' which had a likely phonetic value of [w] it comes directly from a consonantal form of *u (some might transcribe *w, I don't) in Proto-Ind... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/what-happened-to-my-waw.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600e398a599880005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics attic greek indo-european classical greek ionic greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/abstract-women.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/abstract-women.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/abstract-women.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:13:03 +0200 Since my last article about the alternant nouns of Tocharian I've been thinking about the development of the feminine in other Indo-European languages. The feminine gender will always be a rather mysterious thing. There's absolutely no reason why... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/abstract-women.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600d41446453a3c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics feminine indo-european classical greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/i-want-to-do-this-now.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/i-want-to-do-this-now.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/i-want-to-do-this-now.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 May 2007 03:31:26 +0200 I've been working on a theory with one of my classmates on the Indo-European present stem suffix *neu/nu. As seen in the Greek δείκνυμι for example. I'm not sure if anyone else ever proposed this, but I think it's very likely that it is actually d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/i-want-to-do-this-now.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600cd972ac0a44cd5?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics indo-european tocharian b n-infix nu-suffix nh2-suffix classical greek http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/pious-love.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/pious-love.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/pious-love.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:57:56 +0200 I skipped a week, I'm very sorry. Been busy. I'll try to compensate by updating twice this week. Today I wanted to discuss a Greek sentence, in English this time. Let's take a line by Socrates as written by Plato in Euthyphron: ἆρα τὸ ὅσιον ὅτι ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/pious-love.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600d09e5ebeecbe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> classical greek linguisitics http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/lysias.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PhoeniX) http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/lysias.html?_c=feed-rss http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/lysias.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:15:15 +0100 Sorry for the late update, and sorry for the rather inaccessible update. I have a word-per-word glossed Classical Greek text from Lysias. I'm sorry to say though, that for now, it's in Dutch, since I use it as my homework in my Greek classes. But ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phoenixblog.vox.com/library/post/lysias.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff939f53d75600d09e5c1eaebe2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> linguistics attic dutch attic greek lysias classical greek