Speaker: Dionysis Goutsos

Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Abstract: Late Modern Greek (1700 to today) as the most recent stage in the long history of the Greek language has received relatively little scholarly attention from the perspective of language change. This presentation draws on evidence from a range of Greek corpora to investigate diachronic shifts in the frequency and distribution of key grammatical elements, including prepositions, genitive endings, complementizers, and adversative conjunctions. The analysis reveals significant patterns of change and highlights the crucial role that genre plays in shaping language change, as well as the important contribution of corpora in this investigation.