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  • HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN GREECE AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AREA
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 0.1 The Greek language community in the 5th c. B.C.
  • 0.2 Expansion of Attic and the rise of a new standard language
  • 0.3 Definition of 'Koine'
  • 0.4 Synchronic parallels â€? Modern Arabic and Modern Greek Koine
  • 0.5 The system of linguistic varieties in the Hellenistic period
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 1. Methodology
  • 1.1 Inscriptional corpus
  • 1.2 Written versus spoken language1.3 The study of variation in language
  • 1.4 Statistical analysis
  • 1.5 Stylistic variation in inscriptional sources â€? The classification of inscriptions
  • 1.6 Linguistic characterization of regional inscriptions written during Hellenistic (300-150 B.C.) and Greco-Roman (150 B.C-300 A.D.) times
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 2. The Hellenistic social and linguistic context
  • 2.1 The Hellenistic monarchies
  • 2.2 Political and social conditions in the Greek city states
  • 2.3 The Greeks of the Hellenistic diaspora
  • 2.4 The natives in the eastern Hellenistic monarchies2.5 Religious orientalization of the Greeks
  • 2.6 Greek education
  • 2.7 Substratum interference
  • 2.8 Bidialectalism and bilingualism
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 3. Decline of Ancient Greek dialects
  • 3.1 'Strict' Doric dialects
  • 3.1.1 Laconia
  • 3.1.2 Messenia
  • 3.1.3 Cyrenaica
  • 3.1.4 Crete
  • 3.2 'Middle' Doric dialects
  • 3.2.1 Aegean Doric dialects
  • 3.2.2 Western Argolis
  • 3.3 'Mild' Doric dialects
  • 3.3.1 Saronic Gulf
  • 3.3.2 North West Greece
  • 3.4 Elis
  • 3.5 Achaea
  • 3.6 Aeolic dialects 3.6.1 Boeotia
  • 3.6.2 Thessaly
  • 3.6.3 Lesbos
  • 3.6.4 Aeolic littoral of Asia minor
  • 3.7 Arcado-Cypriot dialects
  • 3.7.1 Arcadia
  • 3.7.2 Cyprus
  • 3.8 Pamphylia
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 4. Growth of various forms of Koine
  • 4.1 Attic-Ionic Koine
  • 4.1.1 Regional and social varieties
  • 4.1.2 Phonology of the Attic dialect in the Hellenistic period
  • 4.2 Aegean Doric Koine
  • 4.3 Achaean Doric Koine
  • 4.4 North West Doric Koine
  • 4.4.1 Local standard of Delphi
  • 4.5 Egyptian Koine
  • 4.6 Eastern (Syro-Palestinean) Koine
  • 4.7 Asia Minor Koine4.7.1 Local standards of Magnesia, Pergamon, Priene and Miletos
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 5. Hellenistic Koine in contact with other languages
  • 5.1 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Egyptian
  • 5.2 Hellenistic Koine in contact with Phoenician, Aramaic and Arabic
  • 5.3 Hellenistic Koine in contact with aboriginal languages of Asia Minor
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 6. Conclusions
  • 6.1 Mechanisms of language change in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
  • 6.2 Dialect consciousness and koineizing habits