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

Mark Janse

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.