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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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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 characteristics of Byzantine diglossia are outlined and associated with [...]

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Linguistic variation and the non-standardisation of the low varieties in Early Modern Greek diglossia

International Colloquium “Linguistic Variation in Bilingual Communication, Acquisition and Diachronic Change” of the Research Centre 538: Multilingualism of the University of Hamburg [10.2003] This paper was a first and not yet fully developed version of my paper on “Register Variation and the Grammar of Medieval Greek”. The Powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.

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