Pietro Bortone
Pietro Bortone (* 1966 in Milan ) is an Italian neo-Greekist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago , Illinois , USA .
After studying classical , Byzantine and modern Greek studies and the theoretical linguistics at King's College London and the University of Oxford Bortone was at Oxford with a dissertation on the Greek prepositions to D.Phil. PhD. He then got a job as Assistant Professor in the Program in Modern Greek Studies of the Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois. In 2010, Bortone was a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin with a project on the Greek-Turkish identity problem of the Pontic Greeks .
Bortone is mainly concerned with the history and structure of the Greek language . Special research focuses are the cases and adpositions in synchronic and diachronic terms, Pontic Greek , language in connection with ethnic and social classifications and, beyond linguistics , questions of Greek and Turkish identity , nationalisms , minorities and the diaspora .
Fonts
- Greek prepositions from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN 0-19-955685-7 . - Review by: David M. Schaps, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.19.2013
- Greek with no history, no standard, no models: Muslim Pontic Greek. In: A. Georgakopoulou, MS Silk (Ed.), Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present. London: Ashgate 2009, p. 67 ff. ( Google Books )
Web links
- Personal page on the Modern Greek Studies Association website
- Personal page at Wolfson College, Oxford University
- Bortone at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bortone, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Neo-Greekist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |