Project

A contact grammar of Romeyka.

Code
01CD4821
Duration
01 November 2021 → 30 April 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Greek language
    • Contact linguistics
    • Grammar
Keywords
Romeyka Pontic Greek Asia Minor Greek language contact language shift minority languages Modern Greek dialectology Turkish Middle East Greek Turkish Language and text analysis Field research Contemporary Muslim Pontic Trabzon Turkish Linguistics
 
Project description

Romeyka is a seriously endangered Greek minority language spoken in north-eastern Turkey. Several hundred years of language contact with Turkish have led to very rermarkable morphosyntactic contact phenomena. Since we still lack a thorough grammatical description of the language, it is the aim of this dissertation to provide a grammar of the language, with particular attention to language contact phenomena.