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A critical lexicostatistical examination of Ancient and Modern Greek and Tsakonian
This article provides a lexicostatistical comparison of Ancient and Modern Greek Swadesh-100 vocabulary with data from the three recorded dialects of Tsakonian: Southern, Northern, and Propontis.
Nick Nicholas
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Teaching Modern Greek to Classicists
The ideology of decline is a part of the history of the study and characterization of the Greek language from the Hellenistic period and the Roman Atticist movement right up to the emergence of katharevousa in the 19th century and the resulting modern ...
Jerneja Kavčič +2 more
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The semantic and syntactic ingredients of Greek dish names: Are compounds a main choice?
The syntactic and semantic analyses of 2,500 dish names retrieved from 112 restaurant, tavern, and patisserie menus in Eastern Macedonia and in Thrace in Northern Greece show that only a small number of concepts are denoted by the heads of these noun ...
Markantonatou Stella +3 more
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Scientific etymological analysis, applicable to both standard and dialectal vocabulary/lexicon, is predicated on core methodological principles that necessitate a word’s cross-regional and diachronic examination.
Georgia Katsouda
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Comparing Patterns of Adjectival Modification in Greek: A Diachronic Approach
This paper investigates the distribution of adjectives in Ancient Greek, with the aim of comparing it to Standard Modern Greek. We use a selection of texts from Classical Attic and New Testament koiné. In Ancient Greek, like in Standard Modern Greek, all
Cristina Guardiano, Melita Stavrou
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The Novel Crime and Punishment in Modern Greek Translations [PDF]
The article examines the Greek translations of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment by A. Alexandru, Z. Kanas, and S. Patadzis, focusing on the episode of the conversation between Raskolnikov and Marmeladov. Marmeladov’s confession about his life and
Evgeniya P. Litinskaya
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Iphigenia as A Bestseller: The Sacrifice of Abraham and Its Slavic and Ottoman Nachleben
The Cretan religious drama The Sacrifice of Abraham (Η Θυσία του Αβραάμ) enjoyed great popularity among Orthodox populations of the wider cultural realm of Southeastern Europe.
Vladimir Boskovic
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Metapragmatic Awareness in Melbourne Greek: Addressee-Oriented Indicators and the T/V Distinction
The role of metapragmatics in maintaining interactional coherence and achieving intersubjectivity has been variously underscored in the last three decades.
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
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Ancient Greek Myths in Modern Greek Poetry: Angelos Sikelianos and Daedalus as a Symbol of Freedom
Ancient Greek myths, which have emerged as one of the main sources of inspiration in literature throughout history and have been interpreted many times with different meanings by various authors, have become a powerful tool in conveying themes such as ...
Aslı Damar Çakmak
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This article addresses some Greek traditions associated with fire: pirovasiya (fire-walking, which is also performed in some other regions of the Balkans; for example, in Bulgaria), the burning of Judas, and the fires burned during the Shrovetide ...
Svetlana Sidneva
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