Fieldwork
Vassilis Spyropoulos and I are investigating several dialects spoken in the Dodecanese area such as Symi, Rhodes and Karpathos Greek, as well as varieties of Greek that have been in long-term contact with Turkish, such as Ofitika Pontic. We are particularly interested in recording spontaneous speech data from these varieties and studying various syntactic and phonological aspects of their grammar. More specifically, our focus of investigation is on weak pronominal clitic objects and their cross-dialectaltypology. The past few years we organized and participated
in the following fieldwork trips:
Ofitika/Ofitic Pontic
o May 24-27 2009 (c); May 4-6, 2006 (b); May 2-5, 2003 (a): Two fieldwork trips with a group of students in Nea Trapezounta of Pieria for collection of Ofitika Pontic data.
Sponsors: (a-b) Cultural Society “Alexandros Ypsilantis”) Methodology: interviews and questionnaires. [Click here to see some pictures.] (c) John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation (Action: Projects) <Top>
Symio June 4, 2007; December13-16, 2006; August 27-30, 2002*:
Three fieldwork trips with a group of students in the island of Symi
(Dodekanese) for collection of Symi Greek data.
Methodology: interviews and semi-structured story-telling tasks.
*The fist fieldwork trip to Symi was sponsored by the Second Community Support Framework and co-financed by the European Social Fund, the European Regional Development Fund (75%) and national
resources (25%). [Click here to see some pictures.] <Top>