Greek forms of address: from herodotus to lucian
Auteur :
Dickey, Eleanor
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198150541
Date de publication :
3 oct. 1996
Dimensions :
22,4 x 14,5 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
525 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This work applies linguistic theories of address to the ancient Greek language. It is based on a corpus of 11,891 vocatives from 25 prose authors from Herodotus to Lucian, and on comparative data from Artistophanes, Menander and others. The data is analyzed using techniques from sociolinguistics.