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Thursday, 26 November, 3.30pm
Dr Katerina Zombolou
RCLT
Greek spoken in Argentina: maintenance and change II
Preliminaries remarks on morphological and syntactic changes
The aim of this talk is to present the first remarks on morphological and syntactic changes found in Greek spoken in Argentina by Greek immigrants. The field work was carried out from April to September 2009, consisting of the speech of over 120 persons, aged between 13 and 97 years. The main focus of this project is to examine how Greek spoken by Greek immigrants in Argentina (approx. 16,000-20,000 speakers) has changed compared to Standard Modern Greek as spoken currently in Greece, with respect to grammatical structures and the organization of lexical and grammatical meanings.
The identified changes will give rise to discussion which addresses the following questions:
A. Which language structures are "ready" to undergo a change while some others are resistant to change?
B. Are language structures changing under the influence of the hosting language, Spanish in our case, or are they subject to the universal language economy principle?
C. Greek as spoken currently in Greece is changing too. Are these changes similar to the changes found in Greek spoken in Argentina?
D. Is Greek spoken in Argentina as a first or second language (i.e. by Greek immigrants and descendants) similar to Greek spoken in Argentina (or elsewhere in the world) as a foreign language?
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