From Greece to Cappadocia: Ancient and Modern Greek Language Studies in Honour of Mark Janse

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From Greece to Cappadocia

Ancient and Modern Greek Language Studies in Honour of Mark Janse

Edited by: Klaas Bentein and Metin Bağrıaçık

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 8 | Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics

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Mark Janse has spent an entire career being a philhellene. His passion for the Greek language has carried him from the inner workings of the Homeric hexameter to eschatology in Aristophanes, and from diglossia in the Ancient Greek world to clitic doubling in the history of Greek. Among his broad spectrum of interest, two things stand out: one is his enthusiasm for variation and change across time and space in the Hellenic universe; another is his love for the Asia Minor dialects of Cappadocia.

This two-volume book, which is intended as a tribute to Mark from his colleagues, addresses precisely these two topics: the first volume has a broader scope, and addresses different types of varieties in Ancient and Medieval Greek, such as dialects, regiolects and idiolects, also including indepth studies of specific features. The second volume brings together a variety of studies that underline Mark’s contribution to Cappadocian and more broadly the Asia Minor Greek dialects. While most contributions focus specifically on Cappadocian, some scholars look into other modern Greek dialects, including Pontic and Cypriot Greek.

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Klaas Bentein, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Metin Bağrıaçık, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures and Charts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XI
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
In Honour of Mark Janse Klaas Bentein and Metin Bağrıaçık Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Greek Through the Ages — From Homer to Byzantium
Hyperbaton and Homeric Colometry: A First Exploration Rutger J. Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Aspect in the Gortyn Law Code: The Subjectivity of the Category Jesús de la Villa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Tense, Aspect, Iterativity and Related Textual Criticism: A Case Study Based on Herodotos, Historiai 4.78 Filip De Decker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
The Tragic Aorist: A Well-defined and Homogeneous Group? Gerry C. Wakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Changes in Word Order: Scribal Corrections to the Placement of Clitic Pronouns Joanne Vera Stolk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
Κένταυρος, Κέρβερος and Their Possible Etymological Relatives Evidence from Indo-European and beyond (Comparative-Mythological Notes on Possible Near Eastern Contacts of Ancient Indo-Europeans) Leonid Kulikov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Light from Gothic on the Post-Classical Greek Lexicon Brian D. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
The Theory of Semantic Fields and the Greek Lexicon: The Case of ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ and its Semantic Congeners in the History of the Greek Language Georgios K. Giannakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Figs and the City: A Comic Cocktail (Aristophanes, fr. [dub.] 955 Kassel-Austin, PCG) Julián V. Méndez Dosuna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Musings on an Attic Muse: Three Ancient Responses to a Passage from Xenophon’s Anabasis Luuk Huitink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
ἐρρωμένος μοι διατελοῖς μετὰ τῶν φιλτάτων κύριέ μου ἀσύγκριτε: The Social Semiotics of Formulaic Extravagance in the Ancient Greek Epistolary Frame Klaas Bentein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Homer in Byzantium: Comment parler des livres que l’on n’a pas lus? A Cultural Semiotic Note on How to Read, Understand, and Quote Homer from the Second Sophistic to the Palaeologan Era Andrea M. Cuomo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Koineization in Ancient Epirus: Some Additional Insights from Onomastics Panagiotis Filos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
The Papyrus of the Curse of Artemisia: Dialect and Interference Sofía Torallas Tovar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Part II: Greek in Contact — Dialect and Diversity in the Modern Era
On the So-Called Progressive in Romeyka Metik Bağrıaçık, Umut Gülsük, Ümit Atlamaz and Nazik Dikçtopal-Dekiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
The Exploitation of Turkish Dialectal Lexicography: Dialectal Turkish Loanwords in the Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects Georgia Katsouda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Investigating Derivational Borrowability in the Cappadocian Greek Dialectal Landscape: The Emergence of allo-morphomes Dimitra Melissaropoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
Aivaliot Morphology: Selected Phenomena from Prefixization and Verb Borrowing Angela Ralli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
Innovation and Retention in Silliot Greek Konstantinos Sampanis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459
The Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects as a Contribution to the Study of Variation and Change Simeon Tsolakidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
Index Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed
Index Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed

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eBook published on:

December 4, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111183169

Hardcover published on:

December 4, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111182889

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

15

Main content:

513

Illustrations:

41

Coloured Illustrations:

28

Tables:

6

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111183169

eBook ISBN: 9783111183169

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111182889

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Ancient Greek; Modern Greek dialects; diachronic linguistic change; variation and varieties

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Greek and general linguists, philologists, institutes, libraries

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From Greece to Cappadocia

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