Publications | Act of the Scribe

Selected publications, posters and talks by project members relevant for the project:

2018:

Halla-aho, H. “Scribes in Private Letter Writing: Linguistic Perspectives” in Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period, edited by Jennifer Cromwell and Eitan Grossmann. Oxford University Press. 227-239.

2017:

Leiwo, M. “Confusion of Moods in Greek Private Letters of Roman Egypt” in Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, Jorie Soltic (eds.), Variation and Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect and Modality. Brill: Leiden, Boston, 242–260.

Vierros, M. “Traces of a notarial signature in BGU III 997 – a deliberate removal?” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 63/1, 25–28.

Dahlgren, S. Outcome of long-term language contact : Transfer of Egyptian phonological features onto Greek in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Helsinki. [e-thesis]

Vierros, Marja and Erik Henriksson. 2017. ”Preprocessing Greek Papyri for Linguistic Annotation” in Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages, edited by Marco Büchler and Laurence Mellerin. [Link]

Vierros, M. “Papyri and digital linguistic analysis: building the Sematia corpus and platform” in Digital Classics III: Re-thinking Text Analysis. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, May 12-13, 2017.

Leiwo, M. “Twisted Greek: Letter writers from praesidia in the Eastern Desert of Egypt” in Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use. A Workshop. The Finnish Institute at Athens, April 6-8, 2017.

Dahlgren, S. “The language use of the Narmouthis scribes: Foreign language perception and native language transfer” in Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use. A Workshop. The Finnish Institute at Athens, April 6-8, 2017.

Vierros, M. ”Applying modern authorship attribution methods to papyri and ostraca – preliminary remarks” in Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use. A Workshop. The Finnish Institute at Athens, April 6-8, 2017.

Halla-aho, H. “Scribes and language in Latin documentary texts from Egypt” in Act of the Scribe: Interfaces between Scribal Work and Language Use. A Workshop. The Finnish Institute at Athens, April 6-8, 2017.

2016:

Leiwo, M. Plenary lecture in Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, University of Ghent, Dec 1–2, 2016

Vierros, M. “Idiolect in focus: brothers in the Memphis Serapeion” in Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, University of Ghent, Dec 1–2, 2016.

Dahlgren, S. Towards a definition of an Egyptian Greek variety. Papers in Historical Phonology. 2016;1: 90–108. [link]

Halla-aho, H. “An unpublished Latin testament (P. Carlsberg 671 recto + P. Berlin 14470b recto)” in 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, August 1–6, 2016. Handout. Slides.

Dahlgren, S. “Evidence from the papyri: a preliminary definition of an Egyptian Greek variant” in Graeco-Roman Antiquity” in 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, August 1–6, 2016.

Leiwo, M. “Act of the Scribe: Transmitting Linguistic Knowledge and Scribal Practices in Graeco-Roman Antiquity” in 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, August 1–6, 2016.

Vierros, M. “Sematia platform, linguistic annotation and the katochoi of the Serapeion” in 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, August 1–6, 2016. Prezi.

Halla-aho, H. “Preposed relative clauses in Roman comedy” in Language in Style. Linguistic variation in Greek and Latin from Lexis to Register, Oxford, Wolfson College, May 18-20, 2016. Handout.

Vierros, M. “SEMATIA: Linguistic Annotation of Greek Papyri” in Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, at University of Oslo and Norwegian National Library, March 15–17, 2016. Poster.

Dahlgren, S. ”Outcome of longterm language contact: towards a definition of an Egyptian Greek variant” in Postclassical Greek: the Intersections of Philology and Linguistics, University of Mainz, February 15, 2016.

Leiwo, M. ”Direct speech in Greek private letters of Roman Egypt” in Postclassical Greek: the Intersections of Philology and Linguistics, University of Mainz, February 15, 2016.

Vierros, M. “Linguistic Annotation of Greek Papyri” in Postclassical Greek: the Intersections of Philology and Linguistics, University of Mainz, February 15, 2016

2015:

Vierros, M. “Sematia: Linguistic Annotation of Greek Papyri” presentation in: Medical Papyri in a Digital World – I Papiri Medici nel Mondo Digitale, Università degli studi di Parma, September 8, 2015.

2014:

Dahlgren, S. and Leiwo M. “Confusion of tense and modality? Impact of L1 phonological transfer on verb semantics” in Sound Change in Interactice Human Systems, 3rd Biennial Workshop on Sound Change,University of California, Berkeley, May 30, 2014. Poster.

Dahlgren, S. “Egyptian Transfer in the Greek of Roman Period Egyptian Scribes” in Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, Feb 14, 2014. Poster.

Vierros, M. 2014. “Bilingualism in Hellenistic Egypt” in G. K. Giannakis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill Online. (First appeared online: 2013)

Vierros, M. 2014. “Review of ‘The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids.” Edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou, 2010.” Arctos 48 (2014) 490–494.

Vierros, M. “Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation: How can we make TEI EpiDoc XML corpus and Treebanking work together?” Digital Classicist London seminars 2014. 25^th July, 2014, Institute for Classical Studies, London. Talk: video and slides.

Halla-aho, H. 2014 “Review of CIL IV, Suppl. pars IV, fasc. I“, Arctos 48 (2014) 502-507.

2013:

Halla-aho, H. 2013. “Bilingualism in action: observations on document type, language choice and Greek interference in Latin documents and letters on papyri”, in B. Rochette and M.-H. Marganne (eds.) Actes de la Table Ronde internationale “Bilinguisme et digraphisme dans le monde gréco-romain”, Université de Liège, 12-13 mai 2011 (Papyrologica Leodensia), Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège. 169–181.

2012:

Leiwo, M., H. Halla-aho and M. Vierros (eds.) 2012. Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. XVII. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens.

Halla-aho, H. 2012. “A historical perspective on Latin proleptic accusatives”, De lingua latina 7 (Revue de Linguistique Latine du Centre Alfred Ernout, Université Paris- Sorbonne).

Vierros, M. 2012a. Bilingual Notaries in Hellenistic Egypt. A Study of Greek as a Second Language. Collectanea Hellenistica 5. Brussel.

Vierros, M. 2012b. “Phraseological Variation in the Agoranomic Contracts from Pathyris.” in M. Leiwo, H. Halla-aho and M. Vierros (eds.), 43–56.

Vierros, M. 2012c. “Review of Bernard Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapieion de Memphis. Une enquête sur l’hellénisme égyptien. Studia Hellenistica 49. Peeters 2011″ Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012) 343-348.

2011:

Halla-aho, H. 2011. “Epistolary Latin”, in James Clackson (ed.) A Companion to the Latin Language. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 426–444.

2010:

Halla-aho, H. 2010a. “Requesting in a letter. Context, syntax and the choice between complements in the letters of Cicero and Pliny the Younger”, Transactions of the Philological Society 108, 232–247.

Halla-aho, H. 2010b. “Linguistic varieties and language level in Latin non-literary letters”, in Evans and Obbink (eds.) 2010. The Language of the Papyri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171–183.

Leiwo, M. 2010. “Imperatives and Other Directives in the Greek Letters from Mons Claudianus,” in Evans and Obbink (eds.) 2010. The Language of the Papyri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 97–119.

2009:

Halla-aho, H. 2009. The non-literary Latin letters. A study of their syntax and pragmatics. Comm. Hum. Litt. 124. Helsinki: Tiedeseura.

2008:

Vierros, M. 2008. “Greek or Egyptian? The Language Choice in Ptolemaic Documents from Pathyris,” in A. Delattre and P. Heilporn (eds.) “Et maintenant ce ne sont plus que des villages…” Thèbes et sa région aux époques hellénistique, romaine et byzantine. Actes du colloque tenu à Bruxelles les 2 et 3 Decembre 2005. Papyrologica Bruxellensia 34. Bruxelles. 73–86.

2005:

Leiwo, M. 2005. “Substandard Greek. Remarks from Mons Claudianus,” in N. M. Kennel and J. E. Tomlinson (eds.), Ancient Greece at the Turn of the Millennium: Recent Work and Future Perspectives. Proceedings of the Athens Symposion 18–20 May 2001. Publications of the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens No. 4. Athens. 237–261

2003:

Halla-aho, H. 2003. “Scribes and the letters of Claudius Terentianus”, in H. Solin, M. Leiwo and H. Halla-aho (eds.), Latin vulgaire – latin tardif VI. Actes du VIe Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Helsinki 29 août – 2 septembre 2000. Hildesheim: Olms. 245–252.

Leiwo, M. 2003. “Scribes and Language Variation,” in L. Pietilä-Castrén and M. Vesterinen (eds.), Grapta Poikila I. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. VIII. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens. 1–11.

Vierros, M. 2003. “Everything is Relative. The Relative Clause Constructions of an Egyptian Scribe Writing Greek,” in L. Pietilä-Castrén and M. Vesterinen (eds.), Grapta Poikila I. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. VIII. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens. 13–23.