31.136, Confs: Greek, Gen Ling / Slovenia

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Subject: 31.136, Confs: Greek, Gen Ling / Slovenia

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:57:35
From: Christina Manouilidou [Christina.Manouilidou at ff.uni-lj.si]
Subject: A glimpse into Greek Linguistics

 
A glimpse into Greek Linguistics 

Date: 15-Jan-2020 - 15-Jan-2020 
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Contact: Jerneja Kavcic 
Contact Email: jerneja.kavcic at guest.arnes.si 
Meeting URL: https://www.cd-cc.si/en/culture/literature-and-humanities/glimpse-greek-linguistics 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Greek, Cappadocian (cpg)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)
                     Greek, Mycenaean (gmy)
                     Middle Greek (qgk)
                     Slovenian (slv)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European 
Meeting Description: 

The conference is devoted to the Greek language and linguistics and it
explores different aspects of its study. It brings together a mix of young and
established researchers working on Greek language, providing a glimpse into
aspects of historical and synchronic research on Greek as well as new
advancements within the scope of neuroscience.

It is organised by Cankarjev dom in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts,
(Departments of Classical Philology and Department of Comparative  and General
Linguistics, University of Ljubljana) and it will take place on Wednesday,
January 15th at Cankarjev Dom, Prešernova 10, Ljubljana. 

No attendance fee is required.
 
Organizers:

Jerneja Kavčič (Department of Classics)
Christina Manouilidou (Department of Comparative and General Linguistics)
 

Programme:

9.00: 
Welcome addresses:
Dean Roman Kuhar
academician Peter Štih, vice-president of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences
and Arts
his excellency Eleftherios Kouvaritakis, the ambassador of the Hellenic
Republic in Slovenia

9.30‒10.40: 
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University): The decipherment of Linear B: opening a
window into Greek in the prehistoric Mediterranean 

10.40‒11.10: 
Orest Xherija (University of Chicago): Restoring ancient text with artificial
intelligence: the case of Greek 

11.10‒11.40: Coffee break

11.40‒12.50: 
Geoffrey Horrocks (University of Cambridge): What's in the middle? Two voices
or three?

12.50‒13.20: 
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University), Jerneja Kavčič (University of
Ljubljana), Christopher Brown (Ohio State University): Teaching Modern Greek
to classicists 

13.20‒14.30: Lunch break

14.30‒15.40: 
Spyridoula Varlokosta (University of Athens): Patterns of (morpho)syntactic
production and comprehension in aphasia: the contribution of Greek

15.40‒16.10: 
Christina Manouilidou (University of Ljubljana) and Michaela Nerantzini
(University of Ioannina): Language disorders from antiquity to modern era

16.10‒16.40: Coffee break

16.40‒17.10: 
Matej Hriberšek (University of Ljubljana): At the intersection of Slovenian
and Greek: lexicographer Dominik Pen and his work

17.10 ‒18.10: 
Mark Janse (University of Gent & Harvard University): From Katpatuka to
Ionanistan: the rise, demise and resurrection of Cappadocian Greek, a language
once believed dead 

18.15: 
Projection of the documentary ''Last words''





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