Οι Θεματοεπιστολαί του Θεοδοσίου Ζυγομαλά και η μετάβαση από τη βυζαντινή στην πρώιμη νεοελληνική παράδοση

Αντικείμενο αυτής της ανακοίνωσης αποτελεί ένα αυτόγραφο του Θεοδοσίου Ζυγο­μαλά που είναι σήμερα τμήμα του σύμμεικτου κώδικα Mb 30 της πανεπιστημιακής βιβλιοθήκης του Tübingen.
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καθαρεύουσα vs δημοτική. An audio-visual example

This short extract from the 1959 film «Ο Ηλίας του 16ου» demonstrates the use of καθαρεύουσα in formal settings. You can find a simple transcription in Greek below. Update 02.01.2010: Have a look at this example (from the Digital Archives of Greek Television –...
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Diglossia and register variation in Medieval Greek

Published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Vol. 32 No. 2 (2008) 203–217 The journal is available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney This article recognizes diglossia as a key phenomenon for the interpretation of the existence of different registers in the late Byzantine period (twelfth-fifteenth centuries)....
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One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm: Diachronic study of Greek and the Computer

This paper sets out to explore how and why digital editions of texts or text-versions could facilitate a truly diachronic study of the Greek language. It points out shortcomings of existing digital infrastructure and argues in favour of a general shift of focus towards...
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Run the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae as a separate application with Prism

Run the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae as a separate application with Prism

I am using the TLG on a daily basis for my research. I ‘ve bookmarked the entry URL on my browser (Safari for Mac OS X) and normally have one or more tabs or windows simultaneously open. My issue with this: I tend to...
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Review: Σπύρος Μοσχονάς, Ιδεολογία και γλώσσα, Athens 2005

Published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 34/1 (2010) 117-118 You can download the PDF-file here.
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Language and Identity in Greece (1900-1976)

You can download the slides as PDF here. LanguageAndIdentityLectureSlides(2)
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Snow Leopard and Internet connection

Spend a day without Internet connection after upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). My MacBook Pro would get an IP address from the router, browser and mail software couldn’t connect to the Internet, Skype could. The solution: added DNS servers in Network...
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Unicode Code Converter

http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ You can paste in text in Unicode, the tool will convert to several different codes that you might need for development. This is the above text in decimal code points: 89 111 117 32 99 97 110 32 112 97 115 116 101...
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