
Brian E. Newton
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LOCATION: Burnaby 2, Canada
Professor of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Author of The Generative Interpretation of Dialect: A Study of Modern Greek Phonology.
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Greek language, Indo-European language spoken primarily in Greece. It has a long and well-documented history—the longest of any Indo-European language—spanning 34 centuries. There is an Ancient phase, subdivided into a Mycenaean period (texts in syllabic script attested from the 14th to the 13th…
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