Event Host: Department of Classics Modern Greek Program
Short Description: Brian D. Joseph, linguistics, presents, “Modern Greek Confronting its Past: Archaism and Innovation in Language."
Brian D. Joseph, linguistics, presents, “Modern Greek Confronting its Past: Archaism and Innovation in Language."
Noted linguist Brian D. Joseph examines how Greek language confronts its past on a daily basis, not only through the pervasive results of some two centuries (or more) of the “Language Question” reflecting the struggle between the puristic and vernacular, but through the remarkable archaisms that the language preserves, even as very innovative features emerge. Then Joseph discusses lessons learned about how Greek, Greeks, and Greece deal with those respective pasts.
Brian D. Joseph is Distinguished University Professor and professor of linguistics and The Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Languages and Linguistics.
Reception follows. Both, free and open to the public
Contact: Anagnostou.1@osu.edu
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