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 language...
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You...
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A Greek Grammar for Colleges I found this site very useful (I have to check Smyth’s grammar for reference purposes and this site is better than Smyth@Perseus). It’s the same XML-text, I suppose, but presented differently. Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Betacode description: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html Online tools: 1. Sean Redmond’s Greek Font to Unicode converter: http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/ CGI based conversion tool, supports cut&paste. 2. Cental (Centre du traitement automatique du langage) Beta Code to Unicode Converter: http://130.104.253.20/beta2uni/ Lets you upload and convert whole files from the TLG CD ROM to Unicode. 3. Michael Neuhold’s greekconverter: http://members.aon.at/neuhold/antike/grkconv.html (inactive?) Java-Applets and downloadable Java-Classes for converting between...
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“Οι Θεματοεπιστολαί του Θεοδόσιου Ζυγομαλά και η μετάβαση από τη βυζαντινή στην πρώιμη νεοελληνική παράδοση”, in: Σ. Περεντίδης (εκδ.), Ο Ιωάννης και ο Θεοδόσιος Ζυγομαλάς και η εποχή τους, Αθήνα: Δαίδαλος (in press) Αντικείμενο αυτής της ανακοίνωσης αποτελεί ένα αυτόγραφο του Θεοδοσίου Ζυγο­μαλά που είναι σήμερα τμήμα του σύμμεικτου κώδικα Mb 30 της πανεπιστημιακής βιβλιοθήκης...
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“Creating a database for the ‘Grammar of Medieval Greek’ project”, in: Ι. Μαυρομάτης (εκδ.), Πρακτικά του διεθνούς συνεδρίου Neograeca Medii Aevi VI: Πρώιμη νεοελληνική δημώδης γραμματεία. Γλώσσα, παράδοση και ποιητική, Οκτώβριος 2005, Ιωάννινα (in press) The main goal of the “Grammar of Medieval Greek project” is to produce a com­prehensive Grammar of Medieval Greek...
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HyperPo :: Digital Text Reading Environment This is a site that earned my “wow”: interactive text analysis on the server, great visualization, fantastic for teaching and research. Impressed! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: textanalysis, hypertext
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In my present job I am heavily involved with language description: reading through loads of texts, identifying interesting linguistic features, storing them in a custom-build database. That’s good for some phenomena that you can not easily identify with other means; sometimes you just have to use the computer and scan a large amount of...
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