Project

Mišótika Cappadocian in contact: the consequences of linguistic change on the variety’s vowel system.

Code
01CD3121
Duration
01 September 2021 → 28 February 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Contact linguistics
    • Dialectology
    • Phonetics and phonology
    • Sociolinguistics
Keywords
Cappadocian Asia Minor Greek vowel system phonology linguistic change
 
Project description

This project is about Cappadocian, a Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Asia Minor until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1924). It focuses on the vowel system of the only surviving dialect called Mišótika. The research will shed light on the dynamics of language variation and change in contact situations and it will be an important contribution to the documentation of the last of the Cappadocian dialects.