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... M. Uhlenbeck Mark Janse (Editor) Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. ... Page 7. Productivity and Creativ... more ... M. Uhlenbeck Mark Janse (Editor) Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. ... Page 7. Productivity and Creativity Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of EM Uhlenbeck edited by Mark Janse with the assistance of An Verlinden Mouton de Gruyter Berlin-New York 1998 Page 8. ...

Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches, Jan 1, 2003

Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, a... more Bilingualism has seen an explosion of work in recent years. This volume introduces classicists, ancient historians, and other scholars interested in sociolinguistics to bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean. The fifteen chapters cover theoretical and ...

Linguistic varieties such as female speech, foreigner talk, and colloquial language have not gone... more 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

Conference Programs by Mark Janse

Journal articles & Book chapters by Mark Janse

Grammatical Theory and Philosophy of Language, 2002

Discussion of Apollonius' treatment of the syntax and semantics of the enclitic and orthotonic fo... more Discussion of Apollonius' treatment of the syntax and semantics of the enclitic and orthotonic forms of the personal pronouns in light of contemporary usage in Postclassical Greek

Horizons of Psychology, 2023

Psychology is one of the seven hub sciences, which involves great responsibility for psychologist... more Psychology is one of the seven hub sciences, which involves great responsibility for psychologists but also great opportunities for both psychologists and other scholars; that was the theme of the 17 th European Congress of Psychology organized by the Slovenian Psychologists' Association. This article contains a detailed example of how psychology functions as a hub science today. The research topic finds its origin in the seemingly unrelated discipline of classics. Latin and Ancient Greek have been taught in Europe for centuries, and even today there are many pupils in secondary education who study them. This custom does not go uncriticized, as the classical languages are often perceived as irrelevant in the modern world. Classicists have therefore been forced, and continue to be forced, to defend the very existence of their discipline. One of the arguments they have adduced, is that the study of classical languages has a beneficial impact on pupils' linguistic and general cognitive abilities. This claim is closely related to the general issue of transfer of learning which has long preoccupied philosophers and psychologists. The only way to verify such a claim, is to resort to a psychological approach. This article presents the first fully elaborated theoretical framework for the cognitive impact of classical language education, which paves the way for sound and rigorous research on this topic. The framework starts from cognitive transfer as a central construct and goes on to combine insights from various psychological and non-psychological literatures. As such, a fruitful interaction comes about: Not only does psychology contribute to classical language impact research, the latter will also enrich cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics by broaching new terrain.

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, 2020

Actes du 15e Con¬grès International des Linguistes, 1993

Synchrony and diachrony of Ancient Greek: Language, linguistics and philology, 2021

Mnemosyne, 2003

The aim of this paper is a modest one. A new proposal is offered for the notation of caesurae in ... more The aim of this paper is a modest one. A new proposal is offered for the notation of caesurae in the early Greek hexameter.1) Before doing so, it is necessary to briefly review a number of previous proposals, since there is to date no generally accepted notation. Let us start with ...

Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of E. M. Uhlenbeck, 1998

Themes in Greek linguistics: Papers from the 1st International Conference on Greek Linguistics, 1994

Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches, Jan 1, 2003

Grammatical Theory and Philosophy of Language, 2002

Horizons of Psychology, 2023

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, 2020

Actes du 15e Con¬grès International des Linguistes, 1993

Synchrony and diachrony of Ancient Greek: Language, linguistics and philology, 2021

Mnemosyne, 2003

Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of E. M. Uhlenbeck, 1998

Themes in Greek linguistics: Papers from the 1st International Conference on Greek Linguistics, 1994

Filologia Neotestamentaria, 2007

Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Mar 30, 2012

Expressions of saying, frequent in the Chronicle, supply a context for the late shift to proclisi... more Expressions of saying, frequent in the Chronicle, supply a context for the late shift to proclisis, as they are found treated as a whole and rendered proclitic through a reanalysis that made the first word dependent on the second rather than being enclitic on what precedes.

Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages, 2008

In Modern Greek, clitic doubling is a grammatical device that marks clitic doubled object NPs as ... more In Modern Greek, clitic doubling is a grammatical device that marks clitic doubled object NPs as topics. Clitic doubling involving the fronting of the clitic doubled NP is called topicalization or, if combined with a boundary pause, topic left-dislocation. Topic left-dislocation is obligatory in the presence of a preverbal focused NP. Clitic doubling involving the backing of the clitic doubled NP is called backgrounding or, if combined with a boundary pause, topic right-dislocation. Right-dislocated topics are interpreted as an afterthought. In Ancient Greek, clitic doubling was an occasional mnemotechnic device to clarify the referent of a left-dislocated topic usually separated by an intervening clause from the verb on which it depended. Topic right-dislocation existed in Ancient Greek as a device to clarify or specify the referent of a clitic pronoun. The grammaticalization of clitic doubling can be traced back to the use of hanging topics, in which case the doubling clitic was needed to specify the grammatical relation of the corresponding hanging topic as direct or indirect object. The construction was grammaticalized in the Medieval period, when clitic doubling positively marked clitic doubled NPs as topics. In Asia Minor Greek, clitic doubling serves exactly the same purposes as in Medieval and Standard Modern Greek. Turkish interference appears in the existence of a definite and an indefinite accusative to mark topic and focus respectively and possibly the preponderance of SOV as the unmarked order.

This paper discusses the acoustic characteristics of diphthongs in contemporary Misotika, the Cap... more This paper discusses the acoustic characteristics of diphthongs in contemporary Misotika, the Cappadocian variety originally spoken in Misti. The aim is to analyse the distribution of diphthongs in the vowel space and determine their phonetic status. In particular, we compare the realization of diphthongs in the speech of ten male native speakers from two Cappadocian refugee communities: Neo Agioneri (Kilkis) and Xirohori (Thessaloniki). The present study traces out the distinctive phonetic properties of diphthongs of Misotika diphthongs which are realized atin the boundary of a word (internal hiatus) according to measurements at two time points, at the beginning (25%) and at the ending (75%) point of each diphthong in order to detect its trajectory (see Harrington 2010; Jacobi 2009). We detected identified 19 diphthongs that which are classified according to stress position. Moreover, wWe divided thesem into ‘closing’, ‘centring’ and ‘opening’ to identify determine whetherif the di...

Orbis, 1997

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Studies in Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Μελετεσ Για Τισ Νεοελληνικεσ Διαλεκτουσ Και Τη Γλωσσολογικη Θεωρια, 2009

This paper discusses the agglutinative inflection of the passive imperfect and copula in Cappadoc... more This paper discusses the agglutinative inflection of the passive imperfect and copula in Cappadocian and Bithynian, an adaptation of the Greek to the Turkish inflection on the basis of the third person singular in accor-dance with Watkins' Law. The first and second person plural forms of ...

Latomus Revue d'Etudes Latines, 2013

Us and Them Essays Over Filosofie Politiek Religie En Cultuur Van De Klassieke Oudheid Tot Islam in Europa Ter Ere Van Herman De Ley, 2008

De Gruyter eBooks, Nov 5, 2020

Cambridge Scholars Publishing eBooks, 2016

Partial reduplication with (quasi-)fixed segmentism in Cappadocian is discussed as a morphologica... more Partial reduplication with (quasi-)fixed segmentism in Cappadocian is discussed as a morphological phenomenon induced by contact with Turkish. Ιt is argued that the reduplicant in both languages is a tiered affix whose phonemic melody is not determined and hence is defined by that of the base. This reveals an asymmetry between the source and the recipient languages in employing reduplication and in the nature of the reduplicant affix, which should be accounted for language specifically. The discussion also verifies that global copying is almost confined to lexical borrowing, whereas morphological borrowing is almost always selectiv

International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory 9, Leonidio, Tsakonia, Greece, 4-5 June 2021 : Abstracts, 2021

Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Reg... more Cappadocian is a mixed Greek-Turkish dialect continuum spoken in the Turkish Central Anatolia Region until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Only a few Cappadocian dialects are still spoken in present-day Greece. Since the publication of Thomason and Kaufman’s Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics in 1988, Cappadocian has attracted the attention of historical and contact linguists, because of its unique mixed character. In this paper, I will discuss a number of theoretical issues in the interpretation of the linguistic structure of Cappadocian, focusing on the following topics: (1) the status of loan phonemes and loan morphemes in contact languages, (2) the distinction between code switching and code mixing in relation to Poplack’s Free Morpheme Constraint, (3) the schizoid typology of contact languages.

Partial reduplication with quasi-fixed segmentism in Cappadocian Greek and Armenian is discussed ... more Partial reduplication with quasi-fixed segmentism in Cappadocian Greek and Armenian is discussed as a morphological phenomenon induced by contact with Turkish. It is argued that the reduplicant in all three languages is a tiered affix whose phonemic melody is not determined and hence is defined by that of the base. This reveals an asymmetry between the source and the recipient languages in employing reduplication and in the nature of the reduplicant affix, which should be accounted for language specifically. The discussion also provides evidence for selective copying of morphological items.

With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a state-of-the-art subject and language classificat... more With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a state-of-the-art subject and language classification, refined through a fine-grained keyword-system, the Linguistic Bibliography is a standard reference work for every scholar of language and linguistics. This volume has been brought up-to-date and contains extensive indexes of names, languages, and subjects.

Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 1989

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1999 / Bibliographie Linguistique de L’Année 1999, 2003

Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer, 2012

Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2012

The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Wherea... more The Digenis Akritis is preserved in two important manuscripts: Escorial and Grottaferrata. Whereas the language of the former is traditionally considered vernacular or even vulgar, the scribe of the Grottaferrata manuscript is said to employ an archaizing style. The frequent occurrence of clitic particles like delta epsilon, gamma alpha rho, mu epsilon nu and omicron upsilon nu is one of the more prominent archaizing features. In Ancient Greek, clitic particles and clitic pronouns tend to cluster together in second position in accordance with Wackernagel's Law. In this note, we examine the various distributional patterns of clitic particles co-occurring with clitic pronouns in the Grottaferrata manuscript. We argue that despite the occurrence of some apparently classical clusterings, the distribution of clitic pronouns and particles is clearly governed by contemporary rules