Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 1 – Speakers
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Universität zu Köln
Universität Würzburg
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Center for the Greek Language
Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 1
“Synchronic and diachronic issues of Postclassical Greek”
SECOND POSTCLASSICAL GREEK CONFERENCE
Thessaloniki, October 12-14, 2023
Conference Venue
Auditorium I
Aristotle University, Research Dissemination Center
September 3rd Avenue, University Campus
http://kedea.rc.auth.gr
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
a. General Session
Giuseppina di Bartolo (Cologne), Chiara Gianollo (Bologna) & Beatrice Marchesi (Pavia)
The system of negation in Postclassical Greek: Evidence from documentary papyri
Marina Benedetti (Siena), Carla Bruno (Siena)
(Dis)continuity in dream narratives: On δοκέω in Artemidoru’s Oneirocritica
Vit Bubenik (Newfoundland, Canada)
Development of tense and aspect in Hellenistic Greek
Enrico Cerroni (Rome)
The use of the perfect in literary prose of the 6th century CE
Andrea Cuomo (Ghent)
The linguistics of Medieval Greek: Sources, methodologies, challenges, and opportunities
Camille Denizot (Paris) & Liana Tronci (Siena)
The modal particle ἄν in Postclassical Greek: A corpus-based analysis of the Apophthegmata Patrum
Panagiotis Filos (Ioannina) & Evangelos Karakasis (Thessaloniki)
Greco-Latin bilingualism and Postclassical Greek lexicography: Some remarks on the Latinisms in Hesychius’ lexicon
Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Cologne)
Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms. Observations on language and style
Mark Janse (Ghent)
Modern Greek dialects and the vocabulary of the papyri
Brian Joseph (Ohio)
Learning from the future to explain the present: Modality in later Greek
Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)
Notes on the Greek version of the Armenian Agathangelos
Nikolaos Pantelidis (Athens) & Io Manolessou (Athens)
The end of an era: From antiquity to modernity in Greek phonology
Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen)
Word order changes in Postclassical Greek: Syntactic change or change of registers?
Araceli Striano (Madrid) & Patricia Varona (Madrid)
The linguistic characterization of the language of the ‘confessions’ of Asia Minor (1st-3rd c.): An example of a combination of registers
Jesús de la Villa (Madrid)
Changes in verbal complementation in Late Greek: Τhe extension of the transitive / intransitive alternation
Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)
Negations in tenth century Greek
b. Thematic Panels
First Panel: The language of the magical papyri
Coordinators/organizers: Christopher A. Faraone & Sofia Torallas Tovar (Chicago)
Sofia Torallas Tovar (Chicago)
Linguistic interference in the corpus of the Greek and Egyptian magical papyri
Christopher A. Faraone (Chicago)
Poetry for gods, prose for mortals: Code-switching on Ancient Greek curse tablets?
Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki)
Voces magicae: a multi-linguistic, transcultural phenomenon
Second Panel: A historical socio-pragmatic approach to variation in Ancient Greek non-literary texts
Coordinator/organizer: Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
Marieke Dhont (Cambridge)
Complementing directive downtoners in Postclassical Greek
Marta Capano (Siena)
Λοιπόν, how you send him the donkey! DMs λοιπόν and ἰδού and the speech acts ‘request’, ‘statement’ and ‘assertion’ in papyrus letters from the Roman period
Ezra la Roi (Ghent)
The historical pragmatics of greetings in the papyri (III BCE – VI CE)
Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
Studying nominal forms of address from a historical socio-pragmatic point of view: Types, frequency and strategic usage in the body of Roman-period letters
Third Panel: Digital grammar of Greek documentary papyri (PapyGreek)
Organizer/coordinator: Marja Vierros (Helsinki)
Marja Vierros (Helsinki)
Digital grammar of Greek documentary papyri (PapyGreek) – project’s results and future
Erik Henriksson (Helsinki)
PapyGreek’s graphical query tool: A unified search for syntax and linguistic variation in documentary papyri
Polina Yordanova (Helsinki)
‘Tolerable fluency and grace and occasionally an interesting word order’: Quantifying language proficiency for the study of word order variation in documentary papyri
Fourth Panel: For a new historical grammar of the Greek language
Coordinator/organizer: Georgios K. Giannakis (Thessaloniki)
Georgios K. Giannakis (Thessaloniki)
Why a new historical grammar of Greek?
Panagiotis Filos (Ioannina)
Histories, historical grammars and other linguistic accounts of Greek: Why we need them all
Theodore Markopoulos (Patras)
Historical grammar and Medieval Greek: Challenges and prospects
Nikolaos Pantelidis (Athens)
Issues on writing the historical grammar of Modern Greek
Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
Digital technology, corpora, and historical Greek grammar
Organizing Committee:
Emilio Crespo, Autonomous University of Madrid
Giuseppina di Bartolo, University of Cologne
Daniel Kölligan, University of Würzburg
Panagiotis Filos, University of Ioannina
Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Academy of Athens
Georgios K. Giannakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
For further information, please contact:
Georgios K. Giannakis (ggianak@lit.auth.gr)
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