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
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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
