Modern Greek Section

David Holton

Recent Publications

• (With Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton) Greek: a comprehensive grammar. 2nd edition. Revised by Vassilios Spyropoulos (London: Routledge 2012).
• "The first Modern Greek printed book: Apokopos (1509)", The Anglo-Hellenic Review 42 (Autumn 2010) 16-19
• "What is Medieval Greek? Some thoughts of a grammarian", Scandinavian Journal of Modern Greek Studies 4 (2010) 29-43
• (With Io Manolessou), "Medieval and Early Modern Greek", in: E. G. Bakker (ed.), A Companion to the Ancient Greek language (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), pp. 539-63
• "To fainomeno tis Kritikis Anagennisis", Palimpsiston 20/21 (2006-7), pp. 31-50.
• "Oi neoellinikes spoudes sto Panepistimio tou Cambridge", Institouto Neoellinikon Ereunon Ethnikou Idrymatos Ereunon, Enimerotiko Deltio 32 (December 2007), pp. 96-9.
• "Skepseis gia tin ypodomi tis didaskalias ths neas ellinikis sto exoteriko: voithimata kai morfes ypostirixis", Praktika Diethnous Synedriou: I Elliniki Glossa os deuteri/xeni - Ereuna, Didaskalias, Ekmathisi. Epimeleia ekdosis: Konstantinos Dinas - Anna Chatzipanagiotidi (Thessaloniki: University Studio Press 2007), pp. 34-41.
• "Erotokritos kai Voskopoula: mia sygkritiki analysi", in: S. Kaklamanis (ed.), Zitimata poiitikis ston Erotokrito (Heraklion: Vikelaia Dimotiki Vivliothiki 2006), pp. 273-90.
• "Notes on some verb forms in the work of Leonardos Dellaportas", in: Vassilios Sabatakakis and Peter Vejleskov (eds.), Filia: Studies in honour of Bo-Lennart Eklund (Lund 2005), pp. 97-108.
• (With T. Lendari, U. Moennig and P. Vejleskov [eds.]) Copyists, collectors, redactors and editors: Manuscripts and editions of late Byzantine and early modern Greek literature. Papers given at a conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 23-26 May 2002 (Heraklion: Panepistimiakes Ekdoseis Kritis 2005).
• (With Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton) Greek: an essential grammar of the modern language (London: Routledge 2004), [Greek edition: Athens 2007].
• "Krummena [pragmata] se merikous kavafikous titlous" in: D. Theophanopoulou et al. (eds.), Sugchrones taseis stin elliniki glossologia (Athens: Patakis 2003), pp. 60-76.
• "Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia?", in: M.C. Jones and E. Esch (eds.), Language change: the interplay of internal, external and extra-linguistic factors (Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2002), pp. 169-79.
• Diigisis tou Alexandrou. The Tale of Alexander. The Rhymed Version. Critical edition with introduction and commentary (Athens: Morfotiko Idryma Ethnikis Trapezis 2002) [corrected reprint of the 1974 edition, with a new preface].
• "Classical antiquity and Cretan Renaissance poetry", Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 27 (2001) 87-101.
• Meletes gia ton Erotokrito kai alla neoellinika keimena (Athens: Kastaniotis 2001).
• "The Cretan Renaissance", in: Davina Huxley (ed.), Cretan Quests: British explorers, excavators and historians (London: British School at Athens 2000), pp. 195-202.
• "Georgios Chortatsis" and "Vitsentzos Kornaros", in: Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, ed. Graham Speake (London-Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 2000), pp. 324-6, 908-10.
• "A history of neglect: Cypriot writing in the period of Venetian rule", Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 14/15 (1998/99) 81-96.
• "Kritika kai ermineutika ston Erotokrito: mia episkopisi", Cretan Studies 6 (1998) 395-407.
• (With Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton) Greek: a comprehensive grammar of the modern language (London: Routledge 1997). [Greek edition Athens 1999]
• (ed.) Logotechnia kai koinonia stin Kriti tis Anagennisis (Irakleio: University of Crete Press 1997) [first published in English by CUP, 1991].
• (With Dia M.L. Philippides) Tou kuklou ta gurismata. O Erotokritos se ilektroniki analusi. 4 vols. (Athens: Ermis 1996-2000).
• "The function of myth in Cretan Renaissance poetry: the cases of Achelis and Kornaros", in: Peter Mackridge (ed.), Ancient Greek myth in Modern Greek poetry. Essays in memory of C.A. Trypanis (London: Frank Cass 1996), pp. 1-12

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