Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Matthew Scarborough -- Copyright Page / Matthew Scarborough -- Dedication / Matthew Scarborough -- Preface / Matthew Scarborough -- Acknowledgements / Matthew Scarborough -- Abbreviations of Corpora and Reference Works / Matthew Scarborough -- Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations / Matthew Scarborough -- Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations / Matthew Scarborough -- Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms / Matthew Scarborough -- A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names / Matthew Scarborough -- Chapter 1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology / Matthew Scarborough -- Chapter 2 Methodological Preliminaries / Matthew Scarborough -- Chapter 3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses / Matthew Scarborough -- Chapter 4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses / Matthew Scarborough -- Chapter 5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic / Matthew Scarborough -- Concluding Remarks / Matthew Scarborough -- Appendix 1 Catalogue of Epigraphic References / Matthew Scarborough -- Appendix 2 Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables / Matthew Scarborough -- Bibliography / Matthew Scarborough -- Indexes / Matthew Scarborough.

The Aeolic dialects of Ancient Greek (Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian) are characterised by a small bundle of commonly shared innovations, yet at the same time they exhibit remarkable linguistic diversity. While traditionally classified together in modern scholarship since the nineteenth century, in recent decades doubt has been cast on whether they form a coherent dialectal subgroup of Ancient Greek. In this monograph Matthew Scarborough outlines the history of problem of Aeolic classification from antiquity to the present day, collects and analyses the primary evidence for the linguistic innovations that unite and divide the group, and contributes an innovative new statistical methodology for evaluating highly contested genetic subgroupings in dialectology, ultimately arguing in support of the traditional classification.

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