This paper sets out to explore how and why digital editions of texts or text-versions could facilitate a truly diachronic study of the Greek language. It points out shortcomings of existing digital infrastructure and argues in favour of a general shift of focus towards linguistic analysis of transmitted texts with the help of electronic...
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One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm: Diachronic study of Greek and the computer
Diglossia and register variation in Medieval Greek
Published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Vol. 32 No. 2 (2008) 203–217
The journal is available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney
This article recognizes diglossia as a key phenomenon for the interpretation of the existence of different registers in the late Byzantine period (twelfth-fifteenth centuries). The main...
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καθαρεύουσα vs δημοτική. An audio-visual example
This short extract from the 1959 film «Ο Ηλίας του 16ου» demonstrates the use of καθαρεύουσα in formal settings. You can find a simple transcription in Greek below.
Update 02.01.2010:
Have a look at this example (from the Digital Archives of Greek Television – ERT), a...
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Language and Identity in Greece (1900-1976)
You can download the slides as PDF here.
LanguageAndIdentityLectureSlides(2)
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Snow Leopard and Internet connection
Spend a day without Internet connection after upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). My MacBook Pro would get an IP address from the router, browser and...
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Unicode Code Converter
http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/
You can paste in text in Unicode, the tool will convert to several different codes that you might need for development.
This is the above text in decimal code...
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Tag Galaxy
Tag Galaxy. An alternative photo search engine. Extremely cool, astonishingly simple.
via ReadWriteWeb
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Four useful online tools/resources for Translation into Modern Greek
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Monolingual Greek dictionary (Use to explore the exact meaning of words, find examples of use and some information on register): Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής (Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών –...
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Phonetic change in Medieval Greek: Focus on liquid interchange
“Phonetic change in Medieval Greek: Focus on liquid interchange” (together with Io Manolessou)
The present paper aims to propose a methodology for the research of phonetic change in Medieval Greek,...
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