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LINGUISTIC DICTIONARY ONLINE UPDATE

"Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us…." - Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University “Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us….” - Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University These features make this Dictionary particularly valuable not only for the student of Classics but also for the specialized scholar who works with non-canonical texts and with the documentary sources." - Professor Angelos Chaniotis, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Montanari has fully exploited the new information provided by inscriptions and papyri and has rightly treated personal names as evidence for the Greek language. "Franco Montanari’s Dictionary of Ancient Greek has all the qualities that make a good dictionary: it is complete and up-to-date, it is accurate, and it is easy to use. Hence classicists in general will welcome the English version of this very valuable resource." - Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan "For a number of years now, scholars at ease in Italian have benefitted enormously from the riches, layout, concision, and accuracy of Professor Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca, with its added advantage of the inclusion of names. New content is regularly added to the online version from the 'Words in Progress' database.Each entry has a clear structure and typography making it easy to navigate.

The Dictionary is especially rich in personal names re-checked against the sources for the 3rd Italian edition, and in scientific terms, which have been categorized according to discipline.

Nearly all entries include citations from the texts with careful mention of the source.

When found only once, the location is cited. For each of these forms, the occurrence in the ancient texts has been certified.

The principal parts of some 15,000 verbs are listed directly following the entry and its etymology.

Translated and edited under the auspices of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an invaluable companion for the study of Classics and Ancient Greek, for beginning students and advanced scholars alike. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is also available in print.

LINGUISTIC DICTIONARY ONLINE UPDATE

The most recent update was done in September 2022. News: The online version now includes over 1,100 new entries and more than 600 additions and corrections, due to regular updates. The size of the book necessarily favors concision over-expansiveness, but there is a vast bibliography pointing to sources for further inquiry in all the fields covered in the book for readers wishing to pursue a special interest.Winner of the 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Thirty-four chapters, many covering a variety of issues, were commissioned from scholars who are expert in the field outlined in the title for each chapter. So the present volume was conceived as a book that would make a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics on a very wide range of topics. In addition, there are the non-western traditions to consider. This project began immediately after I had completed The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics (Allan 2010a), which contains pretty much all I wanted to write on that subject but even on topics within the history of linguistics that I covered in that book, there are other perspectives to be presented and, on many matters, much greater expertise than mine to be tapped.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics offers comprehensive coverage of the history of linguistics in a single volume and will serve as an introduction to the understanding of countless topics within the history of linguistics.