Ebook: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, 3 vol.

Brill has initiated a series of encyclopedic works on languages and their linguistic description. Thus far two such works have been published, the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (in 5 volumes; 2006-2009), and the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (which appeared in 2013 in four volumes). The third work in the series is the present Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. The EAGLL is published in a hard-copy print version (in 3 volumes) and in an electronic version accessible on-line.
Like the other Encyclopedias of the Brill series, EAGLL is addressed to a wide variety of readers: to linguists whose main interest is Ancient Greek, and to students and scholars of classics, as well as to all those who are interested in the history of linguistic ideas in antiquity and the nature and structure of the Ancient Greek language. Beyond this, EAGLL will also be a reference tool for the general linguist who is in need of a standard reference work for authoritative and reliable information on various aspects of the Greek language. The focus of this work is on what we generally call “Ancient Greek”, i.e., the period of the language spanning from Proto-Greek to Late Antiquity. The rest of the history of the language is not accounted for in this work (with only very few exceptions). We hope that this gap will be soon covered in some other work, although the major unknown for the history of Greek still remains the Medieval Greek period, especially the dialectal history of the language during this period. Much of this time lapse will hopefully be covered by the upcoming publication of the Grammar of Medieval Greek prepared by a research team under the direction of David Holton and Geoffrey Horrocks at Cambridge, as well as by three projects that Christos Tzitzilis is preparing in Thessaloniki: the first together with Antonin Bartonék on Ancient Greek Dialects, the second on Medieval Greek Dialects, and the third on Modem Greek Dialects. And, of course, it is always hoped
that an updated form of Jannaris’ An Historical Greek Grammar (1897) will be prepared sometime in the near future, although an entirely new historical grammar of the language is still in want.