CONFERENCE: Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Problems and Methods.
Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Problems and Methods.
Finnish Institute at Athens, 17 - 20 September 2009
Programme
Each paper (30 min.) is followed by a discussion of 15 min.
Thursday 17 September
14.00-15.30 Registration (Finnish Institute, Zitrou 16)
Session 1, Chair: Martti Leiwo
16.00 Martti Leiwo Opening
16.15 Heikki Solin Title later
19.00 Refreshments offered by the director of the Institute at his residence
Friday 18 September
Session 1, Chair: Heikki Solin
9.30 Pierluigi Cuzzolin What is linguistic variation and what is linguistic difference in Greek and
Latin?
10.15 Paolo Poccetti Reflexes of variations in Latin and Greek through neither Latin nor Greek
documentations
Coffee Break 11.00-11.30
Session 2, Chair: Eleanor Dickey
11.30 Trevor Evans Aspects of Linguistic Diversity in the
Zenon Archive
12.15 Marja Vierros Egyptian transfer features in Greek. The
case of bilingual notaries in Hellenistic
Egypt
13.00 Lunch
Session 3, Chair: Paolo Poccetti
15.00 Martti Leiwo What is variation and what is not? An
analysis of Greek ostraca letters
15.45 Giovanbattista Galdi The nominative plural ending in Latin
inscriptions, with special regard to the
first declension
Coffee Break 16.30-17.00
Session 4, Chair: Rolando Ferri
17.00 Eleanor Dickey Latin influence on Greek
17.45 David Langslow Typologies of translation techniques in
Greek and Latin
20.00 Buffet Dinner at the Ambassador’s Residence (Transport by bus)
Saturday 19 September
Session 1, Chair: David Langslow
9.30 Gerd Haverling Literary Late Latin and the development
of the spoken language
10.15 Kalle Korhonen Greek in contact with Arabic in medieval
Sicily. Onomastics and linguistic identity
Coffee Break 11.00-11.30
Session 2, Chair: Pierluigi Cuzzolin
11.30 Rolando Ferri Saying no in Roman comedy: a
case of pragmatic variation
12.15 Peter Kruschwitz Nothing ever really changes: Rome's
'epigraphic revolution' from a linguistic
perspective
13.00 Lunch
Session 3, Chair: Gerd Haverling
15.00 Philomen Probert Attic in the non-Atticist Greek
Grammatical Tradition
15.45 Hilla Halla-aho What does ‘Latin’ mean, and related
questions
16.30 Final Discussion
20.00 Colloquium Dinner
Sunday 20 September
An excursion outside Athens.
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