The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek : Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache (Leiden Studies in Indo-european)

Reflexes of syllabic liquids play an important yet controversial role in Greek dialect classification and the analysis of Homeric formulas. This book tackles the entire evidence afresh and elaborates a ground-breaking new scenario of language change in the epic tradition.