The Laboratory for the Study of the Greek Language
The Modern Greek Studies Program
The Ohio State University
Saturday 18 April 2026
103 Oxley Hall 1712 Neil Avenue
A Workshop on Greek Linguistics
With a Special Session on the Scholarly Contributions of
John Kellis, of Μεστά (χίου) and Steubenville, Ohio
9:55: Welcome
10:00-10:30: Brian D. Joseph, “Some new perspectives on variation with ND in Greek”
Celebration of the life and scholarly contributions of John Kellis, of Μεστά (Χίου) and Steubenville, Ohio
10:45 – 11:00: Christopher Brown, Introducing the special session
11:00 – 11:30: Aleka Blackwell, “On the contributions of John Kellis to the study of Chios dialectology”
11:30 – 11:45: Maria Kaliambou, “John Kellis: A folklorist and historiographer in Greek America” [via ZOOM]
11:45 – 12:00: John Kellis, in his own words
1:00 – 1:15: Elizabeth Boehmer, “A plan for a research project: Greek gestures in American contact situations”
1:15 – 1:30: Peter Patitsas, “Observations on the dialect of Lefkada”
1:30 – 2:00: Yiorgos Anagnostou, “Incorporating diasporic history and culture in the language classroom”
2:00 – 2:30: Zoe Gavriilidou, “Keeping Greek alive: Heritage speakers’ practices, preferences, and motivation” [via ZOOM]
2:45 – 3:15: Anastasia Giannakidou, “On the value of Greek folk songs” [via ZOOM]
3:15 – 3:45: Michalis Ι. Marinis, “Defective and anti-defective phenomena”
3:45 – 4:15: Chiara Monaco, “Codifying Vernacular Greek: Early Modern Grammars as sources of linguistic and metalinguistic evidence”
4:30 – 5:00: Lindon Dedvukaj, “The stratification of Greek onomastics and loanwords in Albanian”
5:00 – 5:30: Clayton Marr, “Early loans from Greek into Albanian”