Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Problems and Perspectives of Postclassical Greek -- Part I: Periodization and Greek Diachrony -- How 'Post' is Postclassical? Lessons from the Augment throughout the History of Greek -- Part II: Greek Dialects and Postclassical Greek -- Dialect Convergence and Linguistic Change: The Dodona Tablets Corpus and its Significance for the Study of the History of the Greek Language -- Part III: Homer and Hellenistic Greek -- 'Late' Linguistic Innovations and Elimination of Hiatus in the Homeric Text -- Notes on aemulatio in Hellenistic Epic: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Homeric Language -- Part IV: Language Standardization -- Atticist Views on Linguistic Variation: The Case of Phrynichus' Eclogue and its Use of Ancient Sources -- In the Mood? - Some Thoughts on the Use of the Optative in Postclassical Literary Greek -- Part V: Historical Semantics -- Postclassical 'shame': ἐντρέπομαι and ἐντροπή -- Part VI: Morphosyntax and Biblical Greek -- Negative Concord and Word Order in the Greek Bible and New Testament -- Multiverb Constructions in Postclassical Greek: Pseudo-coordination and Participial Constructions in the Apophthegmata Patrum -- Part VII: The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface -- Double Conjunction Usages in Postclassical Greek -- Word Order in Byzantine Literary Greek -- List of Contributors -- Index Rerum -- Index Verborum -- Index Locorum