Deutsch Intern
Chair of Comparative Philology

Trends in Classics: Greek & Latin Linguistics 1 (TCGLL1)

Synchronic and diachronic issues of Postclassical Greek

Second Postclassical Greek Conference

Thessaloniki
October 12-14, 2023
Auditorium I
Aristotle University

Conference page
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LIVESTREAM (= https://www.auth.gr/video/live-diethnes-synedrio-toy-tmimatos-filol/)


Programme

THURSDAY, October 12, 2023

9:00–9:30
Registration

9:30–10:00
Greetings – Opening of the Conference

10:00–11:30
Paper Session: Postclassical Greek and beyond
Chair: Jesús de la Villa  

10:00–10:30  
Nikolaos Pantelidis (Athens) & Io Manolessou (Academy of Athens)
The end of an era: From antiquity to modernity in Greek phonology

10:30–11:00
Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen)  
Word order changes in Postclassical Greek: Syntactic change or change of registers?

11:00–11:30
Andrea Cuomo (Ghent)
The linguistics of Medieval Greek: Sources, methodologies, challenges, and
opportunities

11:30–12:00
Coffee Break

 

12:00 – 13:30
First Panel: Digital grammar of Greek documentary papyri (PapyGreek)
Organizer/coordinator: Marja Vierros (Helsinki)
Chair: Daniel Kölligan

Marja Vierros (Helsinki)
Digital grammar of Greek documentary papyri (PapyGreek) – project’s results and future

Erik Henriksson (Helsinki)
PapyGreek’s graphical query tool: A unified search for syntax and linguistic variation in documentary papyri

Polina Yordanova (Helsinki) (zoom)
‘Tolerable fluency and grace and occasionally an interesting word order’: Quantifying language proficiency for the study of word order variation in documentary papyri

13:30–15:00
Lunch

 

15:00–16:00
Paper Session: Negation and Word Order
Chair: Marja Vierros

15:00–15:30
Giuseppina di Bartolo (Cologne), Chiara Gianollo (Bologna) & Beatrice Marchesi (Pavia)
The system of negation in Postclassical Greek: Evidence from documentary papyri

15:30–16:00
Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)

Negations in tenth century Greek

 

16:00 – 17:00
Paper Session: Postclassical Greek Lexicon/Lexicography
Chair: Nikolaos Pantelidis

16:00–16:30
Panagiotis Filos (Ioannina) & Evangelos Karakasis (Thessaloniki)

Greco-Latin bilingualism and Postclassical Greek lexicography: Some remarks on the Latinisms in Hesychius’ lexicon

16:30–17:00
Mark Janse (Ghent)  

Modern Greek dialects and the vocabulary of the papyri
 

17:00–17:30
Coffee Break

 

17:30–19:30
Second Panel: A historical socio-pragmatic approach to variation in
Ancient Greek non-literary texts
Coordinator/organizer: Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
Chair: Giuseppina di Bartolo

Marieke Dhont (Cambridge) (zoom)
Complementing directive downtoners in Postclassical Greek

Marta Capano (Siena)
Λοιπόν, how you send him the donkey! DMs λοιπόν and ἰδού and the speech acts ‘request’, ‘statement’ and ‘assertion’ in papyrus letters from the Roman period

Ezra la Roi (Ghent)
The historical pragmatics of greetings in the papyri (III BCE – VI CE)

Klaas Bentein (Ghent University)
Studying nominal forms of address from a historical socio-pragmatic point of view: Types, frequency and strategic usage in the body of Roman-period letters

19:45
Wine reception

 

FRIDAY, October 13, 2023

9:00 – 11:00
Paper Session: Biblical Greek 
Chair: Carla Bruno   

9:00–9:30
Jürgen Hammerstaedt (Cologne)
Eusebius’ Commentary on the Psalms. Observations on language and style

9:30–10:00
Camille Denizot (Paris) & Liana Tronci (Siena)  

The modal particle ἄν in Postclassical Greek: A corpus-based analysis of the Apophthegmata Patrum

10:00–10:30
Araceli Striano (Madrid) & Patricia Varona (Madrid)
The linguistic characterization of the language of the ‘confessions’ of Asia Minor (1st-3rd c.): An example of a combination of registers

10:30-11:00
Daniel Kölligan (Würzburg)  
Notes on the Greek version of the Armenian Agathangelos

11:00–11:30
Coffee Break

 

11:30–13:00
Third Panel: The language of the magical papyri
Coordinators/organizers: Christopher A. Faraone (Chicago) & Sofia Torallas
Tovar (Chicago)
Chair: Athanasia Zografou

Sofia Torallas Tovar (Chicago)
Linguistic interference in the corpus of the Greek and Egyptian magical papyri

Christopher A. Faraone (Chicago)
Poetry for gods, prose for mortals: Code-switching on Ancient Greek curse tablets?

Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki)
Voces magicae: a multi-linguistic, transcultural phenomenon

13:00–14:30
Lunch

 

14:30–17:30
Paper Session: On the Verb
Chair: Panagiotis Filos  

14:30–15:00   
Jesús de la Villa (Madrid)   
Changes in verbal complementation in Late Greek: Τhe extension of the transitive / intransitive alternation

15:00–15:30
Enrico Cerroni (Rome)  
The use of the perfect in literary prose of the 6th century CE

15:30–16:00
Marina Benedetti (Siena) & Carla Bruno (Siena)
(Dis)continuity in dream narratives: On δοκέω in Artemidoru’s Oneirocritica

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–17:00 (zoom)
Vit Bubenik (Newfoundland, Canada)
Development of tense and aspect in Hellenistic Greek

17:00–17:30 (zoom)
Brian Joseph (Ohio)  
Learning from the future to explain the present: Modality in later Greek

 

17:30–17:30
Fourth Panel: For a new historical grammar of the Greek language
Coordinator/organizer: Georgios K. Giannakis (Thessaloniki)
Chair: Stavros Skopeteas   

Georgios K. Giannakis (Thessaloniki)
Why a new historical grammar of Greek?

Panagiotis Filos (Ioannina)
Histories, historical grammars and other linguistic accounts of Greek: Why we need them all

Theodore Markopoulos (Patras)
Historical grammar and Medieval Greek: Challenges and prospects

Nikolaos Pantelidis (Athens)
Issues on writing the historical grammar of Modern Greek

Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
Digital technology, corpora, and historical Greek grammar

19:30
Closing of the Conference

20:00
Dinner

 

SATURDAY, October 14, 2023

Visit to Vergina

9:30 am
Departure from Imperial Palace Classical Hotel  

Lunch at the Kalaidzis wine cellar, Vergina