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- Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory
- Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Ancient Greek Accentuation
- Philomen Probert
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Ancient Greek Accentuation: Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory
Chapter 4 reviews the history of scholarship on the Greek accent, moving with equal surefootedness between Erasmus and generative phonology. In the course of these three chapters, Probert deftly includes comparative material from Sanskrit relevant to the placing of the Greek accents and discussion of the alternative ways of explaining the Greek law of limitation of which the rule of acute accents on antepenultimate syllables given above is a part.
Impressive also is her avoidance of some of the crevasses of the subject. Thus the date of the switch to a stress accent of the Modern Greek type is given as 'the early centuries AD' p.
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In Part II, Probert attempts to find some sort of reason behind the irregularity of Greek accents on adjectives and nouns. Her working hypothesis, arrived at from a consideration of various pieces of evidence, such as the accentuation of loanwords into Greek and the comparison of accented words with exact cognates in Sanskrit and Germanic, is that there is an inherent tension in Greek between a default lexical accent which is recessive, i.
Probert considers various explanations for why recessive or another accentuation wins out in individual cases. It could be, for example, that words formed earlier in the history of Greek favour one accent or another, or that Greek has two or more suffixes of identical shape, which differ only with regard to whether they are accented or not, or that various different semantic classes of words share particular accentuation patterns.
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Closer scrutiny, however, reveals that these explanations, if they have any validity at all, only work for a portion of all the words in the set. Although there is nothing in Ancient Greek comparable to the corpora of modern spoken languages now available, it is at least possible, owing to the Perseus Digital Library, prepared by Gregory Crane and a team from Tufts University Perseus Project , to find word frequencies in a corpus of Greek texts of several million words.
Probert interprets the results of her frequency analysis as follows. However, nouns formed with these suffixes, many of which originate in substantivised use of early adjectives, in general tend towards recessive accentuation, since, in most cases, the predictability of the meaning of the noun is weaker; hence the synchronic identity of the suffix is lost, and the accent falls in with the default.
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This suffix is found on very few inherited adjectives in Greek, but it is used with a high degree of semantic predictability to form abstract nouns usually translatable by English gerunds ending in -ing. These nouns retain the final accentuation, except in cases where the meaning has greatly altered or the derivation has become opaque such that the identity of the suffix is lost. Exceptions to this general pattern are found for very high frequency or very low frequency nouns, in the former case since the words are so common that speakers retain the original accentuation, in the latter, because words are so uncommon that they are not stored in the individual mental lexicons of speakers, but are recreated every time they are used.
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The word for heaven is attested times in Probert's count of the Perseus Digital Library, and the fish name not at all. View freely available titles: Book titles OR Journal titles.
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