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Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, Hardcover by Bentein, Klaas .... Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, Hardcover by Bentein, Klaas (EDT); Janse, Mark (EDT), ISBN 3110608553, ISBN-13 9783110608557, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Linguists have long studied varieties such a female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language in classical Greek, but not in later periods of the Greek language. Here, selected and revised versions of 16 papers from an international conference in Ghent, the Netherlands, during December 2016 take up the challenge. Among their topics are ideolect in focus: two brothers in the Memphis Sarapieion during the second century BCE, from highly classicizing to common prose (8th-14th centuries CE): the metaphrasis of Niketas Choniates' History, orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE - 800 CE), and the distinctiveness of syntax for varieties of post-classical and Byzantine Greek: linguistic upgrading from the third century BCE to the tenth century CE. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()