THE 9TH MIDWEST WORKSHOP ON GREEK LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: A VIRTUAL AFFAIR
SATURDAY 6 JUNE 2020
Organized by
The Laboratory for Greek Dialectology of The Ohio State University and the Center for Hellenic Studies at The University of Chicago
Access via Zoom at https://osu.zoom.us/j/97855489085 (in order for this to work, you may need to download the Zoom app from https://zoom.us/download)
Program (times in Eastern Daylight Time (= GMT -5)
9:30 – 9:40 — Words of welcome – Introductions
Session A’— A conference Preface: Prefixes, then and now
9:40 – 10:05 – Michalis Marinis (University of Patras), Stem, prefix, or prefixoid? On the criteria defining prefixation
10:05 – 10:30 – Domenica Romagno (University of Pisa), Valency and actionality in Greek (and Latin): the key role of verbal prefixation
10:30 – 11:05 – Mina Giannoula (The University of Chicago), MG preverbs and the formation of verbal complexes
*Virtual Coffee Break*
Session Β’: Dialects
11:15 – 11:40 — Mark Janse (Ghent University), Back to the future: Akritic light on diachronic variation in Cappadocian
11:40 – 12:05 – Matthew Hadodo (University of Pittsburgh), “Μεταχειρίζουνται
Καθαρεύουσα εκεί, εμείς εδώ πιο λαϊκή γλώσσα μεταχειριζόμαστε”: Conflicting
Ideologies of Istanbul Greek
Session Γ’: Keynote Address
12:10 – 12:45 –Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago), On questioning
*Lunch Break (on your own (of course!))*
Session Δ’: Greek in Diachrony
1:30 – 1:55 – Chiara Zanchi (University of Pavia), Introducing HoDeL, a new linguistic resource for the study of Homeric verbs
1:55 – 2:20 – Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University), A diachronic argument concerning the analysis of να-clauses: Contra Miller 2002
*Virtual Coffee Break*
Session Ε’: The Immigrant Experience
2:30 – 2:55 – Zoe Gavriilidou (Democritus University of Thrace), Heritage Greek of Chicago Greek Americans
2:55 – 3:20 – Rexhina Ndoci (The Ohio State University), What can memes tell us about Albanians in Greece and their L2 variety of Greek?
*Virtual Coffee Break*
Session ΣΤ’: Language in Use
3:30 – 3:55 – Sofia Torallas-Tovar (University of Chicago) & Raquel Martín (Complutense University), The Language of the Magical Papyri
3:55 – 4:20 – Emily Kuret (University of Chicago), Aesthetic Repertoires, Aesthetic Communities: Greek-English Code Switching in Thessaloniki Street Art
4:20 – 4:45 – Katerina Chatzopoulou (Association of Ancient Greek Philosophy), Systematicity in language: nonveridicality and consistency
4:45 – 5:30 – General discussion, socializing, virtual ούζο και μεζέδες (: