_The Linguistic Roots of Ancient Greek_ by Don Ringe is slated for
publication later this year.

| This book traces the development of Greek from Proto-Indo-European to
| around the 5th century BC, drawing on all the tools of scientific
| historical and comparative linguistics. Don Ringe begins by outlining
| the grammar of Proto-Indo-European, focusing on its complex phonology,
| phonological rules, and inflectional morphology. He then discusses the
| changes in both phonology and inflectional morphology that took place in
| the development of Greek up to the point at which the dialects began to
| diverge, seeking to establish chronological relationships between those
| changes. The book places particular emphasis on the diversification of
| Greek into the attested groups of dialects, the relationship between
| those dialects, and the extent to which innovations spread across
| dialect boundaries. The final two chapters cover syntactic changes in
| the prehistory and history of Ancient Greek, and the sources of the
| Ancient Greek lexicon. The volume contributes to long-standing debates
| surrounding the classification of Ancient Greek dialects, and offers a
| discussion of the tension between cladistics and contact phenomena that
| is relevant to the study of the relationships within any language
| family.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de