Linguistic varieties such as female speech foreigner talk and colloquial language have not
gone unnoticed when it comes to Classical Greek but little is known about later periods of the
Greek language. In this collective volume leading experts in the field outline some of the most
important varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek basing themselves on a broad range
of literary and documentary sources and advancing a number of innovative methodologies. Close
attention is paid to the linguistic features that characterize these varieties with in-depth
discussions of lexical morpho-syntactic orthographic and metrical variation as well as the
interrelationship between these different types of variation. The volume thus offers valuable
insights into the nature of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek laying the foundation for
future studies of linguistic variation in these later stages of the language while at the same
time providing a point of comparison for Classical Greek scholarship
