Classical Languages in History: Comparative Perspectives on Diglossia

Wed, November 13, 2013
All Day
University Museum (University Hall, room 143)

Each presentation will be fifteen minutes including several minutes of discussion. In conclusion there will be a roundtable discussion.

 

Bilingualism in Ancient Society

 

Presentations

  1. Spiros Moschonas (University of Athens): Aspects of Modern Greek Purism in the post-diglossia period
  2. Brian Joseph (OSU) :  Divinely inspired purism and the roots of Old Indic diglossia
  3. Carolina Lopez-Ruiz (OSU):  Kadmeian letters: Greek and Phoenician linguistic contact
  4. Mark Janse: (Ghent): Bilingualism, diglossia and literacy in first-century Jewish Palestine
  5. Richard Fletcher (OSU): Greek and Latin in Roman North Africa: the case of Apuleius' Apologia
  6. Christopher Brown (OSU): Atticism
  7. Dan Collins (OSU):  Church Slavonic-vernacular diglossia in Rus
  8. Nina Haviernikova (OSU): Standard language and dialect in Slovakia