The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek

Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache

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Lucien van Beek
How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as τέτρατος beside τέταρτος originate?
In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.
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Lucien van Beek, Ph.D. (2013), Leiden University, is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He has assisted in Beekes’ Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill, 2010) and published extensively on Ancient Greek and Indo-European linguistics, etymology, and lexicography.
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Tables
Abbreviations and Conventions

1 The Greek Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥
 Introduction
 1.1 The Problem and Its Relevance
 1.2 Environments with a Common Greek or Proto-Greek Reflex αρ, αλ
 1.3 The o- and u-Colored Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in the Environment *C_T
 1.4 Previous Accounts of - versus - in Ionic-Attic
 1.5 Accounting for *r̥ > -
 1.6 Outlook

2 Mycenaean Reflexes of *r̥ and the Numeral ‘Four’
 Introduction
 2.1 Preliminary Remarks on the Use of Personal Names
 2.2 An a-Colored Reflex in Mycenaean?
 2.3 Evidence for an o-Colored Reflex
 2.4 o-Series versus a-Series Spellings
 2.5 Explaining the Orthographic Variation between ⟨Co-⟩ and ⟨Co-ro-⟩
 2.6 Ion.-Att. τέταρτος and an Early Simplification of *-tu̯- before *r̥
 2.7 A New Account of Myc. qe-to-ro- and Ion.-Att. τετρα τέτρατος
 2.8 Conclusions regarding Mycenaean

3 Reflexes of *r̥ in the Alphabetic Dialects
 Introduction
 3.1 The Alleged Cretan Liquid Metathesis
 3.2 Other West Greek Dialects
 3.3 The Aeolic Dialects
 3.4 Arcado-Cyprian
 3.5 Pamphylian
 3.6 Conclusions

4 Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in ‘Caland’ Formations
 Introduction
 4.1 The Root Vocalism of Caland Formations in Greek and PIE
 4.2 Analogical Reshaping and Re-derivation
 4.3 Reflexes of *r̥ and *l̥ in the u-Stem Adjectives
 4.4 *βλαδύς versus ἀμαλδύνω
 4.5 θρασύς versus θαρσύνω
 4.6 Conclusions

5 Reflexes of *r̥ in καρτερός, κράτος and Related Forms
 Introduction
 5.1 Semantics and Etymology
 5.2 The Allomorphy of κρατ- and καρτ- in Homer and Classical Greek
 5.3 Conclusions concerning the Vocalization of *r̥

6 Reflexes of *r̥ and muta cum liquida in Epic Greek
 Introduction
 6.1 The Reflex - and the Metrical Behavior of κραδίη
 6.2 Muta cum liquida Scansions in Homer
 6.3 Wathelet’s Proposal for the Origin of McL in Homer
 6.4 Criticism of Wathelet’s Scenario
 6.5 Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence for McL in Homer
 6.6 Avoidance of McL Scansion in Epic Greek
 6.7 Epic *r̥: - Is the Regular Reflex of Artificially Retained *r̥
 6.8 The Evidence for - from Epic *r̥
 6.9 Less Certain Evidence for Epic *r̥
 6.10 Nonce Formations with - in Epic Greek
 6.11 Conclusions

7 Epic Forms with -
 Introduction
 7.1 The Dialectal Origin of Forms with -
 7.2 -ρο- as a Conditioned Reflex of Epic *r̥
 7.3 Other Forms with -
 7.4 Conclusions

8 The Reflexes - and - in Aorist Stems
 Introduction
 8.1 The Evidence
 8.2 The Regular Development *r̥ > - in the Thematic Aorist
 8.3 The Pattern of Attestation of the Thematic Aorists with -
 8.4 Epic *r̥ in the Thematic Aorist?
 8.5 Pindaric δρακέντ-
 8.6 Conclusions

9 Remaining Issues Concerning *r̥
 Introduction
 9.1 The Development of *-r̥s- in Ionic-Attic
 9.2 Verbs with a Non-ablauting Root CraC-
 9.3 An o-Colored Reflex in Attic?
 9.4 The Development of *r̥n
 9.5 Word-Final *-r̥
 9.6 Further Potential Evidence for - < *r̥
 9.7 Evidence for - and - Left out of Consideration

10 The Reflexes of *l̥
 Introduction
 10.1 Unknown, Doubtful, or Uncertain Etymologies
 10.2 Cases of - and - Influenced by a Full Grade Form
 10.3 The Pre-form Did Not Necessarily Contain *l̥
 10.4 Promising Evidence for *l̥ > -
 10.5 The Development of *l̥n
 10.6 Dialectal Evidence
 10.7 Conclusions on *l̥

11 Relative Chronology
 Introduction
 11.1 The Vocalization of *r̥ as a late and dialectally different development
 11.2 Dating the Vocalization of *r̥ in Ionic-Attic
 11.3 Dating the Elimination of Epic *r̥
 11.4 Relative Chronology: Other Sound Changes
 11.5 Conclusions

12 Conclusion
 Introduction
 12.1 Philological Results and New Etymologies
 12.2 Regular Reflexes of PGr. *r̥ in Dialects Other than Ionic and Attic
 12.3 Special Reflexes of Proto-Greek *r̥
 12.4 The Reflexes of Proto-Greek *l̥
 12.5 The Double Reflex αρ versus ρα in Ionic-Attic
 12.6 The Prehistory of the Epic Tradition
 12.7 Relative Chronology and Subgrouping

Bibliography
Index
The book is a must-have for academic libraries and specialists/researchers in Indo-European Linguistics, Homeric studies (and hence Classics more generally), Mycenology, and Ancient Greek dialectology.
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