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August 2024

Publication of Vol. 1 of the Historical Dictionary of the Cappadocian Dialect

Dear colleagues and friends,

It is with great pleasure and emotion that we announce the publication of Vol. 1 of the Historical Dictionary of the Cappadocian Dialect, Athens: Academy of Athens, 2024, printed by National Printing House. The Historical Dictionary of the Cappadocian Dialect (Ιστορικό Λεξικό των Ιδιωμάτων της Καππαδοκίας, ILIK), edited by I. Manolessou, Director of the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects, and compiled by the researchers of the Centre: I. Manolessou, G. Katsouda, S. Tsolakidis, G. Chairetakis and the post-doc researcher Ch. Papanagiotou will be completed in 3 volumes. It is the result of a research project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and was implemented from 2018 to 2022 by the Laboratory of Modern Greek Dialects of the University of Patras, with the support of the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens (Digitizing the Cappadocian Dialectal Landscape - DiCaDLand, http://cappadocian.upatras.gr/el ), with D. Melissaropoulou (AUTh) as scientific supervisor.

The aim of the ILIK is to provide the most complete lexicographical documentation of the Cappadocian dialect, joining the series of major dialectal dictionaries of the Academy of Athens, i.e. the Historical Dictionary of the Greek Dialects of Southern Italy (Karanastasis 1984-1992), the Dictionary of the Tsakonian Dialect (Kostakis 1986-1987) and of course the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek (ILNE, 1933-).

The written sources of the ILIK consist of all the published literature on Cappadocian (descriptions of varieties, glossaries, of narratives, folksongs etc.) as well as from the manuscript collections of dialectal material deposited in the Archives of the Academy of Athens and the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. Thus, the ILIK contains a large amount of old linguistic data from unpublished manuscript sources, which was unknown and inaccessible to the scientific community until now. At the same time, ILIK also makes use of a large volume of transcribed recent oral dialectal recordings of 3rd generation refugee speakers, which were kindly provided to the Dicadland project by earlier research projects of Greek and foreign scholars.

The ILIK will soon be available in electronic form from the website of the Academy of Athens, and will be accompanied by the forthcoming 5-volume Linguistic Atlas of the dialectal varieties of Cappadocia, in print and electronic form (http://cappadocian.upatras.gr/atlas/el ).

It was the wish of the contributors of the project that it would serve as a memorial for the 100 years since the end of the historical presence of the Cappadocian dialectal varieties in their homeland.

Electronic publication of Lexicographic Bulletin

With great pleasure we announce that the retrograde publication of the LexDelt volumes continues. After the publication of the special issue 26 (2012), the volume 25 (2005) has just been uploaded.

July 2024

Electronic publication of Lexicographic Bulletin

We announce with great pleasure the retrospective online publication of volume 26 (2012) of the Lexicographic Bulletin. This volume holds a special place in the periodical series, since it constitutes a general overview of the domain of historical and dialectal lexicography. It contains 8 commissioned meta-lexicographic studies by researchers of the Research Centre of Modern Greek Dialects, which treat basic theoretical and methodological aspects of lexicography (phonetic transcription, etymology, senses, examples, sources etc.), and present, comment and interpret the position of the Historical Dictionary of Modern Greek (ILNE) with respect to them, on the occasion of the revision of its Manual of Regulations, published separately as an annex.

June 2024

Electronic publication of Lexicographic Bulletin

Τhe Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects – Historical Dictionary of the Academy of Athens gladly announces the start of its co-operation with the National Documentation Centre for the future electronic publication of the Centre’s journal, Lexicographic Bulletin. The Lexicographic Bulletin will be henceforward freely accessible online at the website https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/lexdelt/index. We start with the publication of the new volume of the Lexicographic Bulletin, the double commemorative volume 27-28 (2023), which contains 11 articles by researchers of the Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects of the Academy of Athens, and by internationally acclaimed scholars, which treat various aspects of Modern Greek dialectology, lexicography and language history. It also contains obituaries for the 3 recently deceased former Directors of the Centre, as well as a special dialectological-lexicographical bibliographic overview. It will soon be followed by the gradual digital publications of all the previous volumes of the Bulletin, which contain several major contributions of dialectological and lexicographic interest. Stay tuned!

May 2023

Participation of Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects in AMGL43 conference

The Research Centre for Modern Greek Dialects participated in AMGL43 conference which was held  from 4-7 May 2023 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The conference talks are listed below:

Io Manolessou (Researcher Grade Α, invited speaker): «Ιστορία της ελληνικής γλώσσας: πρόοδος, προβλήματα και προοπτικές στον 21ο αι.»

Symeon Tsolakidis (Researcher Grade C) in collaboration with Dimitra Melissaropoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and Angela Ralli (University of Patras): «Οι αρχειακές πηγές στην υπηρεσία της γλωσσικής αλλαγής: νέα δεδομένα για την εξέλιξη του νεοελληνικού παρακειμένου»

Georgios Chairetakis (Researcher Grade C): «Τα αριθμητικά στις νεοελληνικές διαλέκτους: συγχρονική και διαχρονική προσέγγιση»

Georgios Chairetakis (Researcher Grade C) in collaboration with Angela Ralli (University of Patras): «Η σύνθεση στην κρητική διάλεκτο»

Click here for the conference program

Click here for the abstract book