#  Indo-European: Christina Skelton (Harvard University) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 6, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EST 

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 **Boylston 104**  



 

 



 

#### Pamphylian: Language and Dialect Contact in Ancient Greek

##### Abstract:

Among the Greek dialects, Pamphylian is odd-- it seems to represent a mix of several different Greek dialect groups, with influence from the neighboring Anatolian languages. In this talk, I argue that we can reconstruct the early settlement history of Pamphylia using sociolinguistics to study these patterns of language and dialect contact. Specifically, I argue that Pamphylia was initially settled by a small number of Greek speakers who were outnumbered by native Anatolian speakers who learned Greek as a second language, and that the initial mix of settlers were mainly speakers of Cretan, but also included speakers of Cypriot and Lesbian. Finally, I consider an important but rarely considered question in Greek dialectology: why does Pamphylian show so much influence from the native languages, when Cypriot and the other dialects of Asia Minor-- where Greeks also colonized originally non-Greek-speaking areas-- do not?



 

 



 

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