The Prosody of Greek Speech

by Andrew M. Devine

Book Overview

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally be answered in the laboratory. In this work, the authors interpret the evidence of Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195373359
• ISBN13: 9780195373356
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"