Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions

Lucien van Beek (Ph.D. Leiden University, 2013) is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. He has authored The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek (Brill, 2022) and published extensively on Greek and Indo-European linguistics, etymology and lexicography.

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroductionLucien van Beek1 Prosody, Metre and Reflexes of *r̥ in Epic Greek: The Case of ῥέζω versus ἔρδωLucien van Beek2 Changement linguistique et réaction de la langue épique: sur hom. εὐηγεν(ής), εὐρυπυλές et χαλκοβατέςAlain Blanc3 Homeric Constructions, Their Productivity, and the Development of Epic GreekChiara Bozzone4 Metrical Constraint and Dialect Borrowings: ἔσεται, ἐσσεῖται and the Homeric Futures of the Verb ‘To Be’Albio C. Cassio5 A Night Reconnaissance: On Νύξ and Her Aeolic (?) Epithets in HomerStefan Höfler6 The Changing Use of Tmesis in Early Greek Hexameter PoetryThomas McConnell7 The Morphology and Syntax of the Imperative in Homeric PrayersSimon Pulleyn8 Ṯamūd: Reading Traditions; the Arabic Grammatical Tradition; and the Quranic TextMarijn van Putten9 Archaism, Innovation and Modernization in Homeric LanguageJeremy Rau10 Alleged Anatolian Phraseological Borrowings in Homer’s Language: A ReconsiderationZsolt Simon11 Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading TraditionBenjamin Suchard12 Dialectology and the Origin of Iliad and OdysseyRudolf WachterIndex VerborumSubject index