In the mind of the scribe: an integrated sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach to orthographic variation and change in the Greek language of the papyri Ghent University
Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
This project proposes to combine for the first time historical (socio)linguistics with the insights from modern psycholinguistic research to study linguistic variation in post-Classical Greek. For this purpose the study will use the corpus of Greek documentary papyri, an important source for our knowledge of the history of Greek after the Classical period (ca. 300 BCE – 800 CE). The project builds on existing infrastructure developed by the ...