Giliberto, C., and L. Teresi, eds. Limits to Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages. Storehouses of Wholesome Learning. Mediaevalia Groningana New Series 19 (Peters, Paris/Leuven/Walpole, MA), 81–108, 2013

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 2007

This paper attempts to present an overview of studies that have been conducted in Greece during recent years on the subject of emergent literacy and, more precisely, on preschoolers' acquisition of writing. Its aim is to present the studies focusing on the subject from an "invented spelling" perspective and to discuss the results obtained. Results seem to be in accordance with the results obtained by similar studies in other countries and in different languages, thus supporting the idea of the existence of a universal character to the ways preschool children conceptualise writing.

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E. Berardi, M.- P. Castiglioni, M.-L. Desclos, P. Dolcetti (eds.), Filosofia, storia, immaginario mitologico. Nuovi approcci, 2022

For the ancient Greeks, the relationship between names and the things they designate was of considerable importance, found in various forms and in different kinds of text throughout ancient Greek history. From the «whatever name you want to be called» in hymns to the gods, to philosophical discussions about the connection between words and concepts, between names and things. Both these concerns are found throughout antiquity. The etymologizations that we often find in poetry, as far back as the Homeric tradition, are another aspect of the interest aroused by names, as is the frequency of speaking names and the attention paid to the etymologies of characters’ names. In all these cases, the assumption is that there is some sort of relationship between name and thing named that is not purely arbitrary. In this paper we will present these various phenomena in relation to what is maybe the most defining characteristic of the Greek tradition, variability, and also in connection with the fact that one of the words for ‘character’ in Aristotle’s Poetics is precisely ὄνομα.

Presentation to the 2nd IAPTI CONFERENCE Saturday 21st September 2014, Athens. An attempt to to share with you a story, some hi-story of my mother tongue, GREEK and stress how important was the contribution of this language to science, the arts, drama, philosophy and to the shaping of our modern civilization.To be able to do this I used the two disciplines I studied: Semiology and Archaeology. This is a tribute to my Master, the late Michel Cusin from the University of Lyon 2

Estudios bizantinos, 2019

A text contained in a 10 th century manuscript and that provides a mathematical reason for spelling the Greek alphabet letters in a specific way is published and discussed.

In this paper, we discuss the phases through which Greek initialisms/ acronyms are created. More specifically, we show that these abbreviated configurations take the formsof: (A) “initialisms”: objects of the written language; (B) “acronyms”: legitimate pronounceable objects; (C) “meaningful” objects: legitimate elements of the lexicon. In parallel, we touch on the graphetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, andsemantic processes which stimulate the development of these abbreviated forms.Finally, we cast light on other morphosyntactic and semantic phenomena involved inthe creation of Greek initialisms/acronyms. Keywords: abbreviation, acronyms, prosody, syllable structure, lexicalisation, neology

Some scholars have suggested that the Hellenic alphabet was formed to facilitate the writing of poetry, in the eight century BC. On the other hand, historical and archaeological evidence reveal that the development of the Hellenic alphabet facilitated exchange and commercial activities. The initial function of the forerunners of the alphabet—the word-syllabic and syllabic scripts—was to facilitate almost exclusively; administrative and commercial accounting. In addition to that, the actual pattern of transmission of the Phoenician script in Hellas and the further diffusion of the Hellenic alphabet in Italy and in Phrygia reveals the association of the Mediterranean commercial network with the development and transmission of the alphabet in the late Dark and Archaic Age. Finally, the majority of the earliest Hellenic inscriptions illustrates “proprietorial concern,” pointing implicitly to the commercial function of the new script. Thus the origins, patterns of transmission, and the early uses of the alphabet suggest that the Hellenic script was formed to facilitate exchange and commercial transactions.