Panayiotis A. Pappas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Panayiotis A. Pappas is involved.
2019 The role of frequency of use in lexical change: Evidence from Latin and Greek Diachronica 36:4, pp. 583–611 | Article
Based on the number of words per meaning across the Indo-European Swadesh list, Pagel et al. (2007) suggest that frequency of use is a general mechanism of linguistic evolution. We test this claim using within-language change. From the IDS (Key & Comrie 2015) we compiled a comparative word list… read more
2017 Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek Language Variation - European Perspectives VI: Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 8), Leipzig, May 2015, Buchstaller, Isabelle and Beat Siebenhaar (eds.), pp. 113–124 | Chapter
The research reported here is part of a longitudinal case study into the linguistic effects of de-urbanization, which is occurring in Greece due to severe economic recession. The overall aim of the analysis is to explore the way in which de-urbanization is affecting the evaluation and production of… read more
2011 Review of Bortone (2010): Greek Prepositions: From antiquity to the present Diachronica 28:3, pp. 431–438 | Review
2001 The microcosm of a morphological change: Variation in thelō + infinitive futures and ēthela + infinitive counterfactuals in Early Modern Gree Diachronica 18:1, pp. 59–92 | Article
Summary In Modern Greek the particle tha is used both as a marker of futurity (tha + present indicative) and a marker of conditionality (tha + imperfective past). The history of the former use (starting with thelō + infinitive) has been well researched, but the history of tha as a counterfactual… read more