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Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Greek language (Koinē) --- Hellenistic Greek --- Koinē (Greek language) --- Grammar

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The Praecepta Tonica by John of Alexandria (5th-6th cent. AD) ranks beside Pseudo-Arcadius' epitome as one of the two most important surviving epitomes of Herodian's monumental De Prosodia Catholica: it is a particularly rich depository of well-argued teaching on ancient Greek accentuation, and constitutes an indispensable tool for the reconstruction of Herodian's work. However, despite its importance, it is available only in a seriously flawed edition prepared by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf in 1825. This edition by Georgios Xenis offers an authoritative new critical text based on a thorough examination of not only the direct and indirect witnesses, but also of some special sources of evidence. These include authors such as Michael Syncellus and Theognostus who, although they did not use John himself, drew directly on John's source, thereby providing parallel material that serves to fill gaps in John's textual tradition. In addition, the critical text benefits from conjectural emendation, deriving either from the editor's own activity or from his predecessors. The division of the text into thematically coherent sections brings out its logical structure and renders it more readable, while the rich collection of parallel passages places it in its grammatical context. Exhaustive indices are provided at the end of the volume. The edition will be an invaluable resource for those engaged in critical editions of Greek authors, and will be of interest to classicists and/or linguists working on Aelius Herodian, John of Alexandria, Greek accentuation, or Greek scholarship.

Accents and accentuation --- Greek language --- Grec (Langue) --- Accents et accentuation --- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Philoponus, John, --- Greek language (Koinē) --- Hellenistic Greek --- Koinē (Greek language) --- Aelius Herodianus. --- Ancient Greek Accentuation. --- Ancient Greek Grammarians. --- Ancient Greek Scholarship. --- John of Alexandria / John Philoponus.

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This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus - one of the most substantial extant for the period - is placed centre-stage in the discussion of Hellenistic culture as a whole. Professor Netz argues that Hellenistic mathematical writings adopt a narrative strategy based on surprise, a compositional form based on a mosaic of apparently unrelated elements, and a carnivalesque profusion of detail. He further investigates how such stylistic preferences derive from, and throw light on, the style of Hellenistic poetry. This important book will be welcomed by all scholars of Hellenistic civilization as well as historians of ancient science and Western mathematics.

Mathematics, Greek. --- Technical writing. --- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Mathématiques grecques --- Rédaction technique --- Grec hellénistique (Langue) --- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.). --- Mathématiques grecques --- Rédaction technique --- Grec hellénistique (Langue) --- Greek language (Koinē) --- Mathematics, Greek --- Technical writing --- Greek mathematics --- Geometry --- Engineering --- Science --- Scientific writing --- Technology --- Authorship --- Communication of technical information --- Hellenistic Greek --- Koinē (Greek language) --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Apollonius Dyscolus was the first formal syntactician in Graeco-Roman linguistics. He considered the nature of language to be logical and rule-governed, and assumed an underlying structure for all levels of language. It might be said that from the work of his predecessors, he extracted syntax. This volume contains an English translation of - mainly - Uhlig's 1910 edition of De Constructione Libri Quattor (Peri Suntaxeos), with commentary, an introduction, and an article on Apollonius Dyscolus and the Origins of Deep Structure.

Boethius, of Dacia, 13th cent. Modi significandi. --- Godfrey, of Fontaines, 13th/14th cent. --- Speculative grammar. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Logic, Medieval --- Speculative grammar --- Modistic grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Latin language, Medieval and modern --- Scholasticism --- Medieval logic --- Grammar --- Boetius de Dacia. --- Boethius of Dacia --- Greek language --- -Greek language --- -Classical languages --- Indo-European languages --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Grammar, Historical --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Grammaire spéculative --- Boethius, --- -Grammar, Historical --- Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) --- Greek language (Koinē) --- Hellenistic Greek --- Koinē (Greek language) --- Classical languages

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The consequences of English's spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. The idea of World Englishes encourages us to re-imagine our understanding of the language. The difference between error and innovation can no longer be decided through assumptions about the language 'ownership'. In fact, the language is beginning to be a medium of the expression of identity for more and more people in very different contexts. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, in the belief that while postcolonial studies has obviously had much to say about English, it has either directly concerned or been influenced by English literary studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.

English language --- Postcolonialism --- Discourse analysis. --- Language. --- Globalization --- Social aspects. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Germanic languages --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Anglais langue internationale. --- Anglais (langue) --- Analyse du discours. --- Postcolonialisme. --- Variation linguistique. --- Globalisation --- Aspect social. --- Variation. --- Postkolonialismus. --- Verkehrssprache. --- Sprachvariante. --- Weltsprache. --- Englisch. --- Britisches Englisch --- Englische Sprache --- Nordseegermanische Sprachen --- Sprache --- Verkehrssprache --- Plansprache --- Sprachvariation --- Varianz --- Variation --- Varietät --- Sprachvarietät --- Sprachvarianten --- Diversifikation --- Koine --- Lingua Franca --- Brückensprache --- Weltsprache --- Postkolonialität --- Entkolonialisierung --- Variante --- Linguistik --- Literature --- Postcolonial --- Cultural translation --- Global citizenship --- International English --- World Englishes