Publications

Selected publications by the lab director and lab members

The lab director, Prof. Nikolaos Lavidas, has published widely on diachronic syntax, written language contact, biblical translation as contact, and the diachrony of Greek argument structure. A selected list appears below; for the full annotated list of working-papers self-published by the lab, see Working Papers.

Monograph

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos. 2022. The Diachrony of Written Language Contact: A Contrastive Approach. Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics. Leiden, Boston: Brill. A full-length monograph examining contact-induced change in written registers, with particular emphasis on biblical and literary translations from antiquity through the Renaissance.

Edited volume

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos, and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.). 2022. Studying Language Change in the 21st Century: Theory and Methodologies. Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics. Leiden, Boston: Brill.

Selected articles and chapters

  • Gamagari, T., and Nikolaos Lavidas. 2022. How does language change (not) affect translations? A corpus-based study on lexical transfer in translations of Renaissance English and Greek. In Lavidas, N., and K. Nikiforidou (eds.), Studying Language Change in the 21st Century: Theory and Methodologies. Leiden, Boston: Brill.

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos. 2019. Word order and closest-conjunct agreement in the Greek Septuagint: On the position of a biblical translation in the diachrony of a syntactic correlation. Questions and Answers in Linguistics 5(2): 37-90.

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos. 2017. Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale's New Testament. In Cuyckens, H., et al. (eds.), Explorations in English Historical Syntax, 51-76. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos. 2014. The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: From null to "pleonastic" object pronouns. In Gianollo, C., Jaeger, A., and Penka, D. (eds.), Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, 153-182. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.

  • Lavidas, Nikolaos. 2012. Null vs. cognate objects and language contact: Evidence from Hellenistic Greek. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 48(4): 547-569.

Forthcoming and edited volumes (in preparation)

  • Nikiforidou, Kiki, and Vassiliki Geka (eds.). Genres and Influential Texts (volume in preparation, NKUA Division of Language-Linguistics).

Lab Working Papers, digital edition

Open-access pre-prints and platform launch reports self-published as the GlossaContactLab Working Papers, digital edition. The current issue is WP-01, the AthDGC launch report.

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