Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, LexiconBefore the arrival of the Indo-European Greeks in the area around the Aegean Sea, a non-Indo-European language was spoken there which was eventually replaced by Greek. Although no written texts exist in this Pre-Greek language, Robert Beekes shows that we can reconstruct elements of its phonology and morphology on the basis of the substantial amount of Pre-Greek vocabulary which was absorbed by Greek. In addition to the general characteristics of Pre-Greek, Beekes provides a complete overview of the evidence, comprising over 1100 Greek etyma which are certainly of Pre-Greek origin. The book thus opens a window on the first Pre-Indo-European language of prehistoric Europe to have left a trace in history. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 2 Phonology | 4 |
Chapter 3 Morphology | 27 |
Chapter 4 The Unity of PreGreek | 45 |
Chapter 5 PreGreek is NonIndoEuropean | 46 |
Chapter 6 The PreGreek Lexicon | 47 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aeol apud Ath Arist assume Beekes Caria clearly Pre—Greek compares confirmed connects Cret Crete Cypr dental doubt Pre—Greek Epich epithet Examples fig final find first fish frequent in Pre—Greek Furnée Further note geminate gloss Greek Hell Hippon Indo—European inscr interchange kind Kuiper labial labiovelar metaph metathesis n.pl nasal note the suffix origin see 2.4 palatalized consonant perhaps Pherecr phoneme Phot plant name plur point to Pre—Greek Poll pre—form Pre—Greek in view Pre—Greek origin Pre—Greek suffix Pre—Greek word prenasalization 2.5.2 probably Pre—Greek prothetic vowel 2.3 proves Pre—Greek origin reduplication reflect s—mobile s.v. in section section 13 section 7.1 shows substrate origin substrate word Suid Theoc Thphr typical of Pre—Greek typical Pre—Greek variation 11 variation oz velar word is clearly word is Pre—Greek word is probably zero