A Recent Treatise on Ancient Greek Accentuation: Some Reading Notes
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2023.02.2309Keywords:
pitch accent, stress accent, Modern Greek, Thessalian dialect, palatalization, analogy, syncopeAbstract
This article is an extended review of Éric Dieu’s Traité d’accentuation grecque (2022). Special attention is paid to three questions: (a) the nature of the Ancient Greek pitch accent and the validity of the evidence used; (b) the role of analogy in some changes in the original accent position in Modern Greek; (c) the purported presence of a stress-accent on word-initial syllables in the ancient Thessalian dialect.
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