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Popular lexicon of Greek origin in Italian varieties
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October 2, 2018
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Greek-speaking people have been sailing the Mediterranean for millennia. At various stages of their development from Latin, the Romance languages have been influenced by their idiom. In Italy and in its islands, this role has been particularly evident due to the many rich and culturally active colonies in Southern Italy before and during the Roman period on the one hand, and through the later Byzantine occupation, which lasted several centuries in some areas, on the other. In this article, after a brief summary of the historical background (2.), the characteristics of the lexical borrowings from Greek in the local idioms of Southern (3.) as well as of Central and Northern Italy (4.) will be sketched. Here and there, and in the conclusions (5.), the status quaestionis and the latest orientations of the research will also be broadly outlined.
Keywords: Language contact; Italian; Greek; Byzantine Greek; loanwords; Griko; Grecanico; Mediterranean languages
Published Online: 2018-10-02
Published in Print: 2017-09-01
© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Language contact;
Italian;
Greek;
Byzantine Greek;
loanwords;
Griko;
Grecanico;
Mediterranean languages
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