Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviation of Corpora and Reference Works Grammatical and Linguistic Abbreviations Epigraphic and Papyrological Abbreviations Note on the Accentuation of Dialect Forms A Note on the Transcription of Ancient and Modern Greek Proper Names 1 The Problem of Aeolic in Ancient Greek Dialectology 1 Introduction 2 The Notion of Aeolic in Antiquity 3 19th Century Debates: Ahrens, Meister, and Hoffmann 4 Twentieth Century Developments 5 The Twenty-First Century: Problems and Methods, Old and New 6 Resolving the Impasse: The Aims and Structure of This Work2 Methodological Preliminaries 1 Introduction 2 Methodological Considerations in the Selection of Isoglosses 3 Sources and Methodological Issues 4 The Data Collection for This Study 5 Concluding Remarks3 The Core Aeolic Isoglosses 1 Introduction 2 The Position of Mycenaean in Classification and Relative Chronology 3 Some Preliminary Assumptions: Exclusion of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Greek Synapomorphic Characters 4 Common Innovations from Proto-Greek 5 Conclusions4 The Peripheral Aeolic Isoglosses 1 Introduction 2 Isoglosses Shared by Two of Three Dialects 3 Isoglosses Shared with Neighbouring Dialects 4 Conclusions5 A Probability-Based Clade Test for Aeolic 1 Introduction 2 The Probabilistic Method 3 Evaluation: Application of the Clade Test to the Aeolic Data 4 Discussion of Results and Some Relative Chronologies 5 Conclusions Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: Catalogue of Epigraphic References Appendix 2: Aeolic Dialectal Isogloss Tables Bibliography Index.