Mark Janse

Mark Janse (born August 31, 1959 in Sas van Gent , Netherlands ) is a Dutch, linguistically oriented Greek and Neo - Greek .

Life

Janse studied Classical Philology, Jewish Studies and Linguistics at the University of Ghent . From 1982 to 2004 he was editor of the Linguistic Bibliography, from 2004 to 2008 Professor of Linguistics and Classical Philology at the Roosevelt Academy and Director of the Department of Arts and Humanities, an international honors college at the University of Utrecht . Since 2008 he has been Professor of Linguistics at Ghent University. Visiting professorships have taken him to various universities: Ghent University (1996–2004), University of Amsterdam (2003), Ohio State University (2004) and the University of Patras (2006–2009). He is also a Research Associate at the ESRC Center for Research on Bilingualism at Bangor University (since 2008) and Senior Visiting Scholar of the Alexander Onassis Foundation (2011) and a corresponding member of other Greek organizations ( Center for Asia Minor Studies , Pan-Hellenic Union of Cappadocian Societies ).

Research priorities

Main research interests are the ancient Greek language , the epic artificial language and metrics, and the modern Greek varieties in Asia Minor , the Cappadocian and the Pontic Greek. In June 2005, Janse, together with Dimitris Papazachariou from the University of Patras, found native speakers of Cappadocian in Turkey, a mixed Greek- Turkish language that was believed to have died out in the 1960s. In this context, Janse also works on Turkish linguistics. In theoretical terms, he deals with language change , language typology , language contact and language death in antiquity and the present.

Web links

• Personal page , Ghent University (with picture)
• Personal page , Academia.edu
• List of publications, Ghent University Academic Bibliography
• Center for Asia Minor Studies
• Pan-Hellenic Union of Cappadocian Societies webpage