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COLVIN, Stephen. 2007. a Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné THEMATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREEK DIALECTOLOGY (PRELIMINARY VERSION) M. J. C. SCARBOROUGH Preliminary Note: This is a work in progress. At a later date the sociolinguistic subheading is to be expanded, as well as future sections outlining resources for individual dialect areas are to be added. For now these are lumped under more general headings. Comments and suggestions for improvement are appreciated. [–MJCS, 07.02.2015; email: [email protected]] Introductions (General and Expository): COLVIN, Stephen. 2007. A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné. Oxford: Oxford University Press. COLVIN, Stephen. 2010. “Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages. In: A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language, ed. by E.J. Bakker, 200-12. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. COLVIN, Stephen. 2014. A Brief History of Ancient Greek. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. DUHOUX, Yves. 1983. Introduction aux dialectes grecs anciens: Problèmes et méthodes. Recueil de textes traduits. Louvain-la-neuve: Cabay. [Useful, but occasionally idiosyncratic.] HAINSWORTH, J. B. 1982. “The Greek Language and the Historical Dialects” The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3, Part 1: The Prehistory of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries BC (2nd ed.), ed. by J. Boardman, I.E.S. Edwards, N.G.L. Hammond & E. Sollberger, 850-65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. HORROCKS, Geoffrey. 2010. “Part I: Ancient Greek. From Mycenae to the Roman Empire” In: Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. pp.7-188. MEILLET, Antoine. 1975. Aperçu d'une histoire de la langue grecque. 7. éd. avec bibliographie mise à jour et complétée par Oliver Masson. Paris: Klincksieck. (Esp. Ch.4 “Les dialects”) SCHMITT, Rüdiger. 1977. Einführung in die griechischen Dialekte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. [Of the introductions the most recent publications are the most important for current perspectives, but it is still worthwhile visiting older communes opinonum as long dead and discredited ideas frequently have long afterlives, and they are also necessary to grasp the often unspoken assumptions underlying older handbooks.] Handbooks and Manuals: AHRENS, Heinrich Ludolf. 1839–1843. De linguae graecae dialectis: Liber primus. De dialectis aeolicis et pseudaeolicis. Liber secundus. De dialecto dorica. Gottingae: Apud Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht. [The foundational modern text on Ancient Greek dialect studies. Many ideas of the discipline originated in this work and it is worth revisiting.] BECHTEL, Friedrich. 1921–1924. Die Griechischen Dialekte. Erster Band: Der lesbische, thessalische, böotische, arkadische und kyprische Dialekt. Zweiter Band: Die Westgriechischen Dialekte. Dritter Band: Der ionische Dialekt. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. [The most comprehensive grammatical overview of the local dialects ever made.] BUCK, Carl Darling. 1955. The Greek Dialects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Earlier editions titled Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects. (Boston: Ginn & Company; 1910, 1928). Many parts of the 1955 text are unchanged from the 1910 edition. It is still perhaps the clearest outline of dialectal grammar ever published, but not always clear on historical explanations, there are occasionally mistakes in analysis, and some sections are now over a century out of date.] HOFFMANN, Otto. 1891–1898. Die griechischen Dialekte in ihrem historischen Zusammenhange. 1. Band. 1 THEMATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT GREEK DIALECTOLOGY (PRELIMINARY VERSION) M. J. C. SCARBOROUGH Der süd-achäische Dialekt. 2. Band. Der nord-achäische Dialekt. 3. Band. Der ionische Dialekt. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. [Attempts an early historical-comparative synthesis of the dialects. Hoffmann’s süd-achäische = Arcado-Cypriot, nord-achäische = Aeolic.] MARINONE, Nino. 1957. Dialetti Letterari Greci. Milano: Principato Editore. [A short grammatical overview of literary dialects used by early classical authors with sections sketching ‘Dialetti ionici di Omero ed Erodoto’, ‘Dialetti eolico di Saffo e Alceo’, and ‘Dialetto dorico della lirica corale. Useful as a concise reference.] MEISTER, Richard. 1882–1889. Die griechischen Dialekte auf Grundlage von Ahrens’ Werk ‘De Graecae linguae dialectis’. I. Band: Asiatisch-äolisch, Böotisch, Thessalisch. II. Band: Eleisch, Arkadisch, Kyprisch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. [The first attempt to supercede AHRENS (1839–1843). It reverently follows AHRENS’ presentation of its dialects as Aeolic and Pseudo- Aeolic (i.e. Elean, Arcadian, and the then recently deciphered Cypriot). The projected third and fourth volumes on Doric and Ionic never appeared.] THUMB, Albert. 1909. Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte. Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. [Now superceded by Thumb & Kieckers (1932) and Thumb & Sherer (1959). Some sections of these latter manuals preserve the wording of the 1909 edition unchanged.] THUMB, Albert & E. KIECKERS. 1932. Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte I. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag. THUMB, Albert & Anton SCHERER. 1959. Handbuch der griechischen Dialekte II. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag. Outlines of Historical Grammar (General): BARTONĚK, Antonín. 1961. Vývoj Konsonantického Systému v Řeckých Dialektech. Praha: Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství. BARTONĚK, Antonín. 1966. The Development of the Long-Vowel Systems in the Ancient Greek Dialects. Praha: Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství. LEJEUNE, Michel. 1972. Phonétique historique du mycénien et du grec ancien. Paris: Éditions Klinksieck. RIX, Helmut. 1992. Historische Grammatik des Griechischen: Laut- und Formenlehre (2e Aufl.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. SIHLER, Andrew. 1995. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Useful, but no bibliography whatsoever.] SCHWYZER, Eduard. 1939. Griechische Grammatik: Bd. 1, Allgemeiner Teil. Lautlehre. Wortbildung. Flexion. München: C.H. Beck Verlag. [Still the most comprehensive historical grammar of Ancient Greek, if somewhat out of date.] Epigraphy and Script (General): BÉRARD, François, Denis FEISSEL, Nicolas LAUBRY, Pierre PETITMENGIN, Denis ROUSSET & Michel SÈVE. 2010. Guide de l'épigraphiste: Bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales (4ème éd.). Paris: Éditions Rue d'Ulm. [Go here for epigraphic bibliography generally.] GUARDUCCI, Margherita. 1967. Epigrafia Greca I: Caratteri e Storia della Disciplina - La Scrittura Greca dalle Origini all'età Imperiale. Rome: Istituto poligrafico dello Stato. 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