A new historical grammar of Demotic Greek: reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th centuries as seen through Thumb's handbook of the modern Greek Vernacular
- Author
- Mark Janse (UGent) and Brian D Joseph
- Organization
- Abstract
- Our 2013-14 Center for Hellenic Studies project began as the first steps toward an updating of Albert Thumb’s classic work, Handbuch der neugriechischen Volkssprache, originally published in 1895 (2nd edition, 1910) in German and then translated into English by Samuel Angus and published in 1912 under the title Handbook of the Modern Greek Vernacular. In the project’s early stages, we discovered that the variety of Modern Greek which Thumb describes – late 19th c. Demotic Greek, treated by Thumb as an emerging κοινή – showed greater affinities with varieties that in present-day Greek are found in regional dialects than with anything approximating the present-day Νεοελληνική Κοινή, roughly the standard language as spoken in the capital of Athens and its environs. Thus we document here some of the forms that led us to this assessment, with particular attention to forms within a subclass of neuter nouns, and we discuss them against a backdrop of the Greek language question (το γλωσσικό ζήτημα) and its accompanying language ideology. In particular, we show how they together played a role in the reshaping of present-day demotic in the direction of Classical Greek, thereby leaving older forms to occur today only in regional dialects.
- Keywords
- Koine, Demotic Greek, Modern Greek, Greek Language Question, Medieval Greek, Modern Greek dialects
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4407149
- MLA
- Janse, Mark, and Brian D. Joseph. “A New Historical Grammar of Demotic Greek: Reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th Centuries as Seen through Thumb’s Handbook of the Modern Greek Vernacular.” CHS REREARCH BULLETIN, vol. 2, no. 2, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2014.
- APA
- Janse, M., & Joseph, B. D. (2014). A new historical grammar of Demotic Greek: reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th centuries as seen through Thumb’s handbook of the modern Greek Vernacular. CHS REREARCH BULLETIN, 2(2).
- Chicago author-date
- Janse, Mark, and Brian D Joseph. 2014. “A New Historical Grammar of Demotic Greek: Reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th Centuries as Seen through Thumb’s Handbook of the Modern Greek Vernacular.” CHS REREARCH BULLETIN 2 (2).
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Janse, Mark, and Brian D Joseph. 2014. “A New Historical Grammar of Demotic Greek: Reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th Centuries as Seen through Thumb’s Handbook of the Modern Greek Vernacular.” CHS REREARCH BULLETIN 2 (2).
- Vancouver
- 1.Janse M, Joseph BD. A new historical grammar of Demotic Greek: reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th centuries as seen through Thumb’s handbook of the modern Greek Vernacular. CHS REREARCH BULLETIN. 2014;2(2).
- IEEE
- [1]M. Janse and B. D. Joseph, “A new historical grammar of Demotic Greek: reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th centuries as seen through Thumb’s handbook of the modern Greek Vernacular,” CHS REREARCH BULLETIN, vol. 2, no. 2, 2014.
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author = {{Janse, Mark and Joseph, Brian D}},
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number = {{2}},
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title = {{A new historical grammar of Demotic Greek: reflections on the Kοινή Ελληνική in the 19th and 20th centuries as seen through Thumb's handbook of the modern Greek Vernacular}},
volume = {{2}},
year = {{2014}},
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