History of the Greek language
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This paper deals with an under-studied grammatical feature of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, viz. the concessive markers containing the adverb καλά/kala ('well'). The basic aim is to shed light on their historical evolution with a view... more
La lingua greca, da quando per la prima entrò in contatto con le popolazioni dell’Italia antica, non ha mai smesso di influenzarne i linguaggi. È del risultato di questa influenza, continuativa e sostanziale, che si cerca di dare una... more
Workshop on Historical and Comparative Grammar of Ancient Greek, University of Edinburgh, 3-4 March 2017
This article aims to draw a general picture of Lucian of Samosata’s perception of Christianity through the analysis of the peculiar vocabulary used in chapt. 11 of his De morte Peregrini, where Christianity is mentioned as θαυμαστὴ σοφία... more
The paper discusses the synchronic and diachronic tendencies of the system of in-tensification in Ancient Greek which bases on Paradis' (2000; 2005; 2008) theoretical framework (see for Greek Γαβριηλίδου 2013α; 2014). The intensification... more
The book analyzes a passage from Sophocles ("Trachiniae", vv. 153-160) and another from Plutarch ("De genio Socratis", 5, 577 F) in which two tablets inscribed in "mysteric" characters are cited, in all probability documents, instead,... more
Presentation to the 2nd IAPTI CONFERENCE Saturday 21st September 2014, Athens. An attempt to to share with you a story, some hi-story of my mother tongue, GREEK and stress how important was the contribution of this language to science,... more
The fall of the Mycenaean palatial civilization, that spoke and wrote already a Greek dialect (handed down by the Linear B tablets), the presumed arrival in Greece of invaders, the Dorians, who sank the Hellas in the so-called "Dark... more
Handout for a guest lecture given to Don Ringe's "Comparative Grammar of Greek" at the University of Pennsylvania on December 4, 2001. Newly reformatted and corrected, but otherwise unchanged from the original.
C'est une introduction au cours de grec ancien à l'UL
Reseña de María Dolores Jiménez López, coord., ed., Sintaxis del griego antiguo, Manuales y Anejos de Emérita 54, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2020, 1150 pp., 2 vols., €57,69, ISBN 978-84- 00-10723-9.
Relazione nella XIII Giornata Ghisleriana di Filologia classica
La lingua greca nella tradizione grammaticale latina
a cura di Fabio Gasti e Andrea Pizzotti
La lingua greca nella tradizione grammaticale latina
a cura di Fabio Gasti e Andrea Pizzotti
Survey of the cultural-linguistic history of Cappadocia and Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)
The present contribution offers an overview of the available primary and metalinguistic sources which provide evidence about the geographical spread of the Greek-speaking zone in Southern Italy during the Late Medieval and Early Modern... more
This paper attempts to examine the relationship between the representation of the Greek language and its history, and the particular nature of Modern Greek reform in the 19th century. Our point is that the Greek scholars' lack of... more
This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest... more
Postgraduate Seminar about History of Greek Language
This paper deals with root nouns in the Homeric language. Though root nouns were a very important morphological class of nouns in Proto-Indo-European, it is argued that they no longer constitute a definite, well-determined noun class... more
Rispetto agli altri due grandi lessici etimologici bizantini recenziori, ovvero il Symeonis ed il Magnum, il Gudianum mostra sicuramente una minor vicinanza al loro comune capostipite, ovvero l’Etymologicum Genuinum. Rispetto a... more
The paper aims to give a comprehensive picture and a historical sketch of the linguistic variety spoken in the Saronic Gulf island of Aegina. The variety, now extinct, belongs to the socalled “Old Athenian” dialect group, and has not been... more
Camillo Neri Corso monografico a) τύραννοι e μόναρχοι: la tirannide nella letteratura greca da Omero ai Cristiani. Parte istituzionale b) Complementi di storia della lingua greca. BIBLIOGRAFIA a) Appunti delle lezioni. Due volumi (o un... more