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The Modern Greek Language on the Social Web: A Survey of Data Sets and Mining Applications
Mining social web text has been at the heart of the Natural Language Processing and Data Mining research community in the last 15 years. Though most of the reported work is on widely spoken languages, such as English, the significance of approaches that ...
Maria Nefeli Nikiforos +4 more
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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]
A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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Current developments in language education call for a reassessment of the role that students’ already-established linguistic repertoires can play in language teaching.
Vasiliki Kantzou +1 more
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Eva Palmer-Sikelianos Dances Aeschylus: The Politics of Historical Reenactment when Staging the Rites of the Past [PDF]
Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874–1952), along with her husband, the poet Angehlos Sikelianos, founded the first modern Delphic Festival in 1927 in an effort to revive the Ancient Greek rites that took place on that spot over 2,500 years before.
Samuel Dorf
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The Search for an Exit from the Dictatorship and the Transformation of Greek Conservatism, 1967-1974
The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of transformation of Greek conservatism that evolved during the dictatorship from a current identified with the restrictive practices of the post-Civil War political system to a tenet of the democratic ...
Sotiris Rizas
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It is well known that Greek language and culture had a great impact on Roman culture and literature in the Latin language. However, the influence of the Latin language on Greek has drawn less attention, particularly when it comes to loanwords.
Alka Lončar
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Embedded Aspect in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from L1 Russian Learners of Greek. [PDF]
This work investigates first language (L1) influence on the second language (L2) acquisition of aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Mainland Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where ...
Grohmann, Kleanthes, Karpava, Sviatlana
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Gender, Language and a Lipstick: Creating Cultural Change in a World of Paradoxes
This paper addresses the paradoxes and possibilities for academic feminism in the Third Millennium drawing on feminist linguistics. It targets the role of language in the construction of social gender, focusing on data from Greek, and shows that ...
Angeliki Alvanoudi
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Italian Scholars of Modern Greek as Political-Cultural Mediators during the First Years of Censorship by the Greek Junta, 1967–1971 [PDF]
This article examines how Italian scholars of Modern Greek played the role of cultural and linguistic mediators of Greek writers during the first years of the dictatorship in Greece, 1967–1971, a period in which the country was under strict censorship ...
Christos Bintoudis
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