Gramática de las inscripciones de la Argólide

Zusammenfassung

The region of Argolis, located at the northeastern Peloponnese, has been subject of various linguistic studies along the history of Greek Dialectology. The significant differences that have been found in the inscriptions of the different localities were interpreted by the first authors as the result of an early influx of Attic-Ionic koine. Later, Bartonek (1972) argued that these differences are old and postulated two dialectal well defined, the so-called " West Argolis", with Argos as its main focus, and the so-called "East Argolis", whose principal nucleus was Epidauros and its Asklepieion. Despite the material used by Bartonek is far from complete, his findings have been accepted by all subsequent scholars, and are currently the communis opinio. This doctoral research tries to clarify to what extent the ideas of Bartonek are successful or not. This doctoral research presents, unlike the earlier works, a thorough morphological and phonetic analysis of the phonetic of all the dialectal material found in the area. The conclusions drawn from such an analysis can be summarized as follows. 1) The so-called Eastern and Western Argolis calls constituted a single dialect training after the arrival of the Dorians to the Peloponnese, and before our first written documents, as evidenced by certain exclusive panargolic features. 2) Post ca. 900 B.C. the first non-panargolic innovations began to happen, splitting the dialectal areas of Argos-Mycenae on the one hand, and Epidauros-Troezen on the other. The volume is completed with an index of dialectal words and inscriptions, as well as a map of the Argolis