Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy - Hardcover
Before starting reading Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy, we should keep in mind that we will be facing a situation that is extremely complex. There exists a methodological problem, originating in the past, which caused various misunderstandings. It is due to the volume of different entries assembled in the goal to compose a thesaurus of the Thracian language. Somehow, over the years during the last two centuries, there was a whole set of methods applied that were not in accordance to the progress made by linguistics. For example, the choice made in assembling the two main corpora so far, that of Tomaschek and Detschew, present data from literary and epigraphic sources. These data combined were not at all times convincing. Sometimes controversial entries were included whose interpretation provoked long discussions. More attention was paid to details, which in most of the cases were not concerned with the discussion of the whole body of evidence. One other reason: whilst modern linguistics made a huge progress, Thracian scholars stayed within the general Indo-European theory of the Neogrammarians. The method I used rests on the description of Thracian onomastics obtained after phonological analysis, because I am concerned with the fact that every single phonologically attested form of phonemes and morphs is relevant. For, it helps to list all possible forms of names thus showing all of the graphemes independently.
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About the Author:
Peter A. Dimitrov is Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and the Classics and an expert in Thracian and Greek Epigraphy at New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The recipient of several awards and honors in the US and in Europe is the author and translator of Herodotus' History (1986-1991) among other books. His major project for the last 15 or more years was the subject-matter of his present study on the language of the ancient Thracians and the Greek epigraphic monuments found in Bulgaria. His aim has been to present sound evidence for the historian, as well as for the linguist, and the classicist. His approach is marked by the interdisciplinary studies of his predecessors and teachers and the methods in use in modern scholarship.
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- PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1443813257
- ISBN 13 9781443813259
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages195
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