The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
This project seeks to examine the literary representation of performance in Greek late antique hagiographical Lives of 'saints in disguise' (4th-10th c.), holy types that are usually not studied together but ...read more
My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Greek becomes the main written language in Egypt until the seventh century CE. Many of the changes between Classical ...read more
Over the years, historians of early modern Europe have studied religious identities as inflexible constructs, claiming that people perceived one another as either fellow believers or heretic dissidents. By drawing ...read more
This doctoral dissertation looks at the narrative fiction of Argentina's "children of the disappeared" through the lens of trauma. In Argentina, over the course of the past decades, the most ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more